---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning cemeteries."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning cemeteries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 246"
citation: "Indiana SB 246 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CEMETERIES AND DEAD BODIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris May", "Eric Koch", "James Buck"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71ff14e7-b867-45ed-8262-5fae83597968"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/246"
source_hash: "c6f3b7248023cc18e8b1b5e857bfece1479d15290343557ce90a78db8a0b4086"
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 246 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning cemeteries.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0246/versions/sb0246.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 246 - May - 3rd Reading — **93–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 246 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chris May — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- James Smith — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 61: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative May
- **2018-01-23** Senator Smith J added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 200: yeas 93, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 14

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71ff14e7-b867-45ed-8262-5fae83597968`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).