---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning alcohol and tobacco."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning alcohol and tobacco."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "Indiana SB 1 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Alcohol and Tobacco Commission", "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Licenses", "Permits", "and Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Smaltz", "Ron Alting"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd150eb3-3224-47d8-b57e-938571712995"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/1"
source_hash: "bc42dc49f75d03b224797a8c3707a5ec4af2197096d26fc346c2e97cf9c86108"
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 SB 1 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning alcohol and tobacco.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0001/versions/sb0001.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0001/versions/sb0001.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0001/versions/sb0001.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0001/versions/sb0001.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 1 - Alting - 3rd Reading — **39–10** (pass) · legislature
- SB 1 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **83–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
- Ron Alting — primary (person)
- Dan Forestal — cosponsor (person)
- David Ober — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Alting
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Amendment #1 (Tallian) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 42: yeas 39, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
- **2018-01-22** Cosponsor: Representative Siegrist
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 83, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Representative Forestal added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-02-20** Representative Ober added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-21** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-02-22** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 223: yeas 38, nays 10 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-26** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-02-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-02-28** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-28** Public Law 1

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd150eb3-3224-47d8-b57e-938571712995`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).