---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health treatment for inmates."
description: "Permits, under certain circumstances, an offender committed to the department of correction to be held within a treatment facility operated by the department for not more than 14 days beyond the offender's mandatory release date if: (1) the offender consents; or (2) a court has ordered the offender to be committed to a treatment setting outside the department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "Indiana SB 63 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Department of", "CORRECTION", "Institutions and Inmates", "MENTAL HEALTH", "Mentally Ill or Impaired Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Breaux", "Lonnie Randolph", "Sharon Negele", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03b568cf-01c7-4959-9693-d0bc69bc045f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/63"
source_hash: "845d95835d80d2b15b1161088de1b088989e608d04ebea2e58f21e66eca78d12"
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 63 (2021) — Mental health treatment for inmates.

Permits, under certain circumstances, an offender committed to the department of correction to be held within a treatment facility operated by the department for not more than 14 days beyond the offender's mandatory release date if: (1) the offender consents; or (2) a court has ordered the offender to be committed to a treatment setting outside the department.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0063/versions/SB0063.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0063/versions/SB0063.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0063/versions/SB0063.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0063/versions/SB0063.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 63 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jean Breaux — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Senator Glick
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-26** Senator Breaux added as second author
- **2021-01-28** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2021-02-01** Senator Randolph added as third author
- **2021-02-02** Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
- **2021-02-04** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2021-02-08** Senators Doriot and Brown L added as coauthors
- **2021-02-08** House sponsor: Representative Negele
- **2021-02-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Representative Bauer M added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-03-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-03-23** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-01** Public Law 6

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03b568cf-01c7-4959-9693-d0bc69bc045f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).