---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 36"
citation: "Indiana SB 36 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GENERAL ASSEMBLY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Bosma", "David Long", "Timothy Lanane"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20bd4da6-d3d6-42c7-8dc7-634a5f96b97f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/36"
source_hash: "21037f00b37e83c9af8e5d25dc9dde0912150407e0e8055dc6441c5f2a12d633"
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 36 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning the general assembly.

## 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/sb0036/versions/sb0036.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0036/versions/sb0036.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0036/versions/sb0036.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0036/versions/sb0036.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0036/versions/sb0036.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 36 - Long - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 36 - Bosma - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brian Bosma — primary (person)
- David Long — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Long
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Lanane added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 155: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Bosma
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Goodin
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-05** 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 6

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20bd4da6-d3d6-42c7-8dc7-634a5f96b97f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).