---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 128"
citation: "Indiana SB 128 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Holli Sullivan", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd952745-01b8-4fdd-9a0a-84c92b9472c6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/128"
source_hash: "fab91686bf42c0647db57a41a7e3c39a86450433216add720d52065c5fdb4a68"
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 128 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

## 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/sb0128/versions/sb0128.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0128/versions/sb0128.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 128 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 128 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senators Bohacek, Houchin, Ford added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 50: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Sullivan
- **2018-01-23** Senator Houchin removed as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Senator Houchin added as second author
- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Senators Doriot and Kruse added as coauthors
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-01** Representatives Zent and Jordan added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 305: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-05** Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 119
- **2018-03-16** 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/dd952745-01b8-4fdd-9a0a-84c92b9472c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).