---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 301"
citation: "Indiana SB 301 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information", "HEALTH", "Home Health Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Jeffrey Thompson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5dba4d03-b7af-4172-bfc4-1fae47b2648f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/301"
source_hash: "b851e6990ff8b3a4ef7af7a1883fc353b89cd162fad34c0db3314b778220b648"
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 301 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## 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/sb0301/versions/sb0301.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0301/versions/sb0301.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0301/versions/sb0301.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0301/versions/sb0301.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 301 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 301 - Thompson - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Thompson
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Representative Bauer added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 241: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 347: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 133
- **2018-03-19** 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/5dba4d03-b7af-4172-bfc4-1fae47b2648f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).