---
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 225"
citation: "Indiana SB 225 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Professionals", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "Adult Education", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Erin Houchin", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95d28f27-0f69-4cca-a083-3b082c42b17f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/225"
source_hash: "76485b0ad60210db3f36d3b1beb30e6fed649c3455defcd800534fb00b30cbc7"
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 225 (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/sb0225/versions/sb0225.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0225/versions/sb0225.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0225/versions/sb0225.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0225/versions/sb0225.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 225 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 225 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (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`
- **2018-01-10** Senator Houchin added as second author
- **2018-01-10** Senator Merritt added as third author
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 27: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Senators Crider, Zay, Charbonneau added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Senators Alting, Glick, Holdman 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 Zent added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **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 55

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95d28f27-0f69-4cca-a083-3b082c42b17f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).