---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 363"
citation: "Indiana SB 363 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "HEALTH", "Long Term Care", "EVANSVILLE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "John Ruckelshaus", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c24109e-7f91-4640-80b1-531a2218dbdf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/363"
source_hash: "368f94eecdcd9bcf7a941c1bf9854a183dfb9bd8d660ebc9832579582e859057"
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 363 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0363/versions/sb0363.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0363/versions/sb0363.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0363/versions/sb0363.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0363/versions/sb0363.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0363/versions/sb0363.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 363 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 363 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (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`
- **2018-01-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-18** Cosponsor: Representative Bacon
- **2018-01-18** Senator Head added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Ruckelshaus added as third author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-19** 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
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Amendment #1 (Kirchhofer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 246: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Breaux
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Head, Stoops and Ruckelshaus
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Kirchhofer and Shackleford
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Bacon and Brown C
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 385: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 386: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 168
- **2018-03-21** 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/1c24109e-7f91-4640-80b1-531a2218dbdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).