---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 96"
citation: "Indiana SB 96 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOMELESS", "VETERANS", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "Ed Charbonneau", "Jack Sandlin", "Michael Delph"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/460ee960-a538-4b6e-a842-465ffe6fa7ab"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/96"
source_hash: "df74e8979547d566a91ae2c22a26f5d76f92af368a23502e09f3e5baa8312d23"
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 96 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.07.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.05.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.06.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.02.coms)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0096/versions/sb0096.03.coms)

## Votes

- SB 96 - Delph - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 96 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senators Delph and Sandlin
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
- **2018-01-10** Senator Ford added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2018-02-05** Amendment #6 (Delph) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-05** Senators Kruse, Zakas, Alting added as coauthors
- **2018-02-06** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Frye and Burton
- **2018-02-06** Senator Walker added as coauthor
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Representative Brown, C. added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senate advisors appointed: Sandlin, Ford and Mrvan
- **2018-03-01** Senate conferees appointed: Delph and Niezgodski
- **2018-03-05** House conferees appointed: Zent and Brown C
- **2018-03-05** House advisors appointed: Davisson, Soliday and Shackleford
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 381: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 381: yeas 46, nays 0
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 155
- **2018-03-21** 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/460ee960-a538-4b6e-a842-465ffe6fa7ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).