---
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 431"
citation: "Indiana SB 431 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability", "ABUSE generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "James Buck", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf67e9ce-bbe6-4259-a3b4-62f48fff7029"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/431"
source_hash: "b8a0efffcd964db112f413754128e37954f2425b8766ada293193ef8a75f9e3e"
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 431 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0431/versions/sb0431.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0431/versions/sb0431.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0431/versions/sb0431.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0431/versions/sb0431.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 431 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 431 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 150: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-02-05** Cosponsors: Representatives Mahan and DeVon
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 353: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** 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 106
- **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/cf67e9ce-bbe6-4259-a3b4-62f48fff7029`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).