---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Indiana SB 6 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANA CODE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Young", "Joseph Zakas", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cadaefe4-b54e-4a9a-8a4c-8a5ff37e689e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/6"
source_hash: "26b9090ee58dfbb418d3e0ecce6a843f743d7662f2f15bd1aec0305c25315d48"
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 6 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions.

## 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/sb0006/versions/sb0006.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0006/versions/sb0006.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0006/versions/sb0006.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0006/versions/sb0006.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 6 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 6 - Zakas - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John Young — primary (person)
- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Zakas
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2018-01-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-19** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Representative Young J added as sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-15** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 271: yeas 89, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **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 86
- **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/cadaefe4-b54e-4a9a-8a4c-8a5ff37e689e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).