---
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 135"
citation: "Indiana SB 135 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Erin Houchin", "Jim Pressel", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad4fced-170c-41f3-9933-f6f6d470f3f3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/135"
source_hash: "d2690297b4fa19536a765d02ea4ed211185cf9e7fc3c0363a7cd1a2f659a7ee4"
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 135 (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/sb0135/versions/sb0135.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0135/versions/sb0135.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0135/versions/sb0135.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0135/versions/sb0135.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 135 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 135 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Bohacek
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2018-01-11** Senator Zay added as second author
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Senator Houchin added as third author
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 69: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Pressel
- **2018-01-29** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 229: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-12** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 373: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 120
- **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/8ad4fced-170c-41f3-9933-f6f6d470f3f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).