---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1285"
citation: "Indiana HB 1285 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WELFARE", "SNAP Program", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Erin Houchin", "Heath VanNatter", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53a4307e-0798-45eb-985a-76e83f10e3ae"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1285"
source_hash: "acc57ea84bb85d1d341fac26a58218b9d7efe9cb30443af5d90cb342d03d71fe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1285 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1285/versions/hb1285.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1285/versions/hb1285.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1285/versions/hb1285.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1285/versions/hb1285.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1285 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1285 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **40–9** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-11** Coauthored by Representative DeVon
- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 106: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 297: yeas 40, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Houchin added as second sponsor
- **2018-03-05** Senator Leising added as third sponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 353: yeas 74, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 118
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53a4307e-0798-45eb-985a-76e83f10e3ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).