---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 44"
citation: "Indiana SB 44 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Department of", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Pressel", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23a3e1cc-b662-4a4b-aa18-ee80aa7ecdf1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/44"
source_hash: "84baa8ffd8bbaaf44e519163fad161cf0764d8d91e8eb7271bc27eb64c2898dc"
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 44 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code 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/sb0044/versions/sb0044.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0044/versions/sb0044.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0044/versions/sb0044.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0044/versions/sb0044.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0044/versions/sb0044.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 44 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **44–5** (pass) · legislature
- SB 44 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **79–13** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jim Pressel — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Long
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-08** Senator Long removed as author
- **2018-01-08** Senator Bohacek added as author
- **2018-01-16** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 44, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Pressel
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 79, nays 13 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 7

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23a3e1cc-b662-4a4b-aa18-ee80aa7ecdf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).