---
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 421"
citation: "Indiana SB 421 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NURSING HOMES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Todd Huston", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e33ca57c-5ac9-4f47-9d9c-09cdfcbe90dd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/421"
source_hash: "32571db22f344ab1bdf1837ad2e75f9361fb16542a378e7a22ea7381299b8e3c"
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 421 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.03.comh)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 421 - Huston - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 421 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Todd Huston — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senator Becker
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Huston
- **2018-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Bacon and Hatfield
- **2018-01-30** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** 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** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-02-28** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau and Breaux
- **2018-02-28** Senate conferees appointed: Becker and Stoops
- **2018-03-01** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Leising added as advisor
- **2018-03-05** House advisors appointed: Bacon and Shackleford
- **2018-03-05** House conferees appointed: Huston and Hatfield
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-13** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 378: yeas 99, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 388: yeas 45, 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 173
- **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/e33ca57c-5ac9-4f47-9d9c-09cdfcbe90dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).