---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "Indiana SB 438 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES", "OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Matt Lehman", "Travis Holdman", "Victoria Spartz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1de30088-ae31-4338-876c-4584404b222a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/438"
source_hash: "aa2ec20db61410c9b1de9c66350c1b3bad8f4052580435ac1656ce7919ed23bc"
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 438 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning state offices and administration.

## 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/sb0438/versions/sb0438.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0438/versions/sb0438.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0438/versions/sb0438.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0438/versions/sb0438.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 438 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 438 - Spartz - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Victoria Spartz — primary (person)
- Doug Gutwein — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senators Spartz and Holdman
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Perfect added as third author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2018-01-29** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** Representative Gutwein added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Representative Miller added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 207: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 276: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 134
- **2018-03-19** 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/1de30088-ae31-4338-876c-4584404b222a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).