---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 381"
citation: "Indiana SB 381 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Breaux", "Mark Messmer", "Mike Bohacek", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c3621af-09bc-4f28-923a-7bdaeb378dd8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/381"
source_hash: "30a02cfd11cca9d9b608466a8d85f54a36e3bee4713e88f60863144252ecf6fc"
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 381 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

## 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/sb0381/versions/sb0381.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0381/versions/sb0381.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0381/versions/sb0381.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0381/versions/sb0381.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0381/versions/sb0381.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 381 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 381 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean Breaux — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Melanie Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-30** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Breaux added as third author
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 147: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2018-02-05** Cosponsor: Representative Lindauer
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 252: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Representative Wright added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 71
- **2018-03-14** 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/7c3621af-09bc-4f28-923a-7bdaeb378dd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).