---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Indiana SB 186 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUCTIONEERS AND AUCTIONS", "EDUCATION generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Morris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cae62630-ffd5-468d-85c8-06fa56a96f50"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/186"
source_hash: "30c4ba5e13220f2904d99c04e6fe39861e9f9a81b6accd25cb870f84ca9faa51"
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 186 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/sb0186/versions/sb0186.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0186/versions/sb0186.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0186/versions/sb0186.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0186/versions/sb0186.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 186 - Morris - 3rd Reading — **96–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 186 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Morris — primary (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Kruse
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 34: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Morris
- **2018-01-22** Cosponsors: Representatives Burton and GiaQuinta
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 96, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz and Stoops
- **2018-03-01** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-03-05** House conferees appointed: Morris and GiaQuinta
- **2018-03-05** House advisors appointed: Burton and Taylor J
- **2018-03-05** Representative Torr added as advisor
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 382: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 382: yeas 45, nays 0
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 158
- **2018-03-21** 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/cae62630-ffd5-468d-85c8-06fa56a96f50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).