---
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 428"
citation: "Indiana SB 428 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Dale DeVon", "Michael Young", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45fa8a8e-9d07-4676-b7ae-4516f196b5f2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/428"
source_hash: "16c9e17a1a10527c3f401bea7ee32f84b6fc3a198ec8cd8ca49224eda302cbcd"
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 428 (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/sb0428/versions/sb0428.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0428/versions/sb0428.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0428/versions/sb0428.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0428/versions/sb0428.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0428/versions/sb0428.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 428 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 428 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senator Zay
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #1 (Zay) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #3 (Zay) 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 149: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative DeVon
- **2018-02-05** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2018-02-05** Senator Grooms added as third author
- **2018-02-05** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2018-02-05** Senator Bohacek 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: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Representatives Heaton, Olthoff, Taylor J added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 281: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 105
- **2018-03-15** 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/45fa8a8e-9d07-4676-b7ae-4516f196b5f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).