---
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 360"
citation: "Indiana SB 360 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PREGNANCIES", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a460479-4d23-49f6-b7d9-71d0aa1489df"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/360"
source_hash: "9d0719af9c7ef67e50a0655d79bca6b68267bf7e0eadd915f897897c2f4427b7"
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 360 (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/sb0360/versions/sb0360.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0360/versions/sb0360.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0360/versions/sb0360.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0360/versions/sb0360.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 360 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 360 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Becker added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 64: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative Bacon
- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 203: yeas 95, nays 0 `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
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 16

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a460479-4d23-49f6-b7d9-71d0aa1489df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).