---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Indiana SB 13 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "CORRECTION", "Community Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Randall Head", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fe0b89a-cadf-46ab-85e3-be1f0eaf2368"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/13"
source_hash: "77c9b6975fe06c0d1a468702dbc26cea11a8f8044c72f7614e27fb24d64ffc91"
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 13 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 13 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 13 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Ober — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Glick
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-16** Amendment #2 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2018-01-18** Senator Head added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-13** Representative Zent added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 190: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 4

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fe0b89a-cadf-46ab-85e3-be1f0eaf2368`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).