---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1006"
citation: "Indiana HB 1006 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FORENSIC SCIENCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/affe0d1c-904f-4944-9ac0-03bfb150dc84"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1006"
source_hash: "01a1c9fc041b191f29c353d070701a672194a4c6f38b0ca2d38ab7d637806a27"
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 HB 1006 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.06.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.02.comh)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.05.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.04.coms)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.03.comh)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1006/versions/hb1006.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1006 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1006 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- Seconding of House Rule 8 - DeLaney — **28–65** (fail) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Representatives Torr, Carbaugh, Pierce added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Moed); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 116: yeas 62, nays 28
- **2018-01-31** Rule 8 motion to suspend Rule 117.2 for Amendment #2 (DeLaney); seconding of motion failed for lack of constitutional majority Roll Call 117: yeas 28, nays 65 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-31** Amendment #2 (Moed) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 126: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Bray and Houchin
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Zakas added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 241: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 90, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 65

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/affe0d1c-904f-4944-9ac0-03bfb150dc84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).