---
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 224"
citation: "Indiana SB 224 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Frizzell", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0fa60e3-4466-422f-baf0-20e14bc0cccb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/224"
source_hash: "f8d6e0ed5cbda97f65b1ba19c688c1d6fa0da18b1c9d193416f43bb28f4a12fd"
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 224 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0224/versions/sb0224.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0224/versions/sb0224.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0224/versions/sb0224.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0224/versions/sb0224.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0224/versions/sb0224.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 224 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 224 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — **83–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Frizzell — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Chris May — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
- Dave Heine — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Don Lehe — cosponsor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- John Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Melanie Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon Negele — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)
- William Friend — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — 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 Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2018-01-11** Senator Merritt added as third author
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Senators Crider, Zay, Breaux added as coauthors
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
- **2018-01-22** Senators Holdman, Glick, Alting added as coauthors
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Representative Austin added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Amendment #1 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 83, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-05** Representative Davisson added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-05** Representatives Bacon, Bartels, Burton, Cherry, Ellington, Engleman, Friend, Frye, Heaton, Heine, Kirchhofer, Mahan, Mayfield, McNamara, Miller, Negele, Schaibley, Siegrist, Steuerwald, Zent, Bartlett, Goodin, Taylor J, Ziemke added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Mrvan, Charbonneau and Bohacek
- **2018-03-06** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Breaux
- **2018-03-07** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-07** Representatives Lehe and May added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Frizzell and Austin
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Cook and Shackleford
- **2018-03-08** Representative Davisson added as advisor
- **2018-03-12** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-12** Representative Wright added as cosponsor
- **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 383: yeas 93, nays 4
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 383: yeas 47, 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 160
- **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/e0fa60e3-4466-422f-baf0-20e14bc0cccb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).