---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage and family therapists."
description: "Decreases the number of experiential practice hours required to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or a therapist associate. Specifies that the hours must be completed during at least 12 months."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 11"
citation: "Indiana SB 11 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jon Ford", "Julie Olthoff", "Liz Brown", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9829a4e2-4b2e-4d88-85ff-0e9e1026d1d5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/11"
source_hash: "156bf74b4c7ceffe8e5498108115fce5b39b94716ba84ee15e4e43d19b627769"
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 11 (2023) — Marriage and family therapists.

Decreases the number of experiential practice hours required to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or a therapist associate. Specifies that the hours must be completed during at least 12 months.

## 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/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0011/versions/SB0011.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 11 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Donato
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- **2023-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
- **2023-01-30** Senator Brown L added as third author
- **2023-02-01** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Representatives Ledbetter C and Cash B added as cosponsors
- **2023-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 333: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 15 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/9829a4e2-4b2e-4d88-85ff-0e9e1026d1d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).