---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 436"
citation: "Indiana SB 436 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["RAILROADS", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Liabilities and Damages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Lehman", "Philip Boots", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5929e704-414a-4d0f-9387-73a8fb6cc7ad"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/436"
source_hash: "b7ecbebf4a79dca1b93623c979758bc8ec040c00b69aa12bfe30768d1548cf59"
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 436 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure.

## 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/sb0436/versions/sb0436.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0436/versions/sb0436.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0436/versions/sb0436.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0436/versions/sb0436.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0436/versions/sb0436.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 436 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **72–24** (pass) · legislature
- SB 436 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senator Ford
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Ford removed as author
- **2018-01-23** Senator Boots added as author
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #4 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Senator Holdman added as second author
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 151: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **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 295: yeas 72, nays 24 `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 354: yeas 46, nays 3 `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 107
- **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/5929e704-414a-4d0f-9387-73a8fb6cc7ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).