---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "Indiana SB 187 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Care Programs", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Labor Laws and Safety Issues", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Kevin Mahan", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b05f9905-6260-4c34-88d8-49d6879b1936"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/187"
source_hash: "68de6611f9b9542efd81fe0fd16da4cfdbaa1cfea58a647e1e98ee0e8a42c923"
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 187 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## 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/sb0187/versions/sb0187.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0187/versions/sb0187.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0187/versions/sb0187.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0187/versions/sb0187.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 187 - Mahan - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 187 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Kevin Mahan — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **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`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Mahan
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 57: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Houchin added as second author
- **2018-01-23** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 232: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-28** Representative Summers added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 53

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b05f9905-6260-4c34-88d8-49d6879b1936`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).