---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1073"
citation: "Indiana HB 1073 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Care Programs", "CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Eddie Melton", "Julie Olthoff", "Lonnie Randolph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3478e0c2-a8b1-4a2e-bc4e-8b12430a45e6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1073"
source_hash: "fb51cc46728c540580dee2c1f7678be3551e8a510c758918cc91b593f7cef2c0"
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 1073 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## 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/hb1073/versions/hb1073.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1073/versions/hb1073.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1073/versions/hb1073.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1073/versions/hb1073.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1073 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1073 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Harold Slager — coauthor (person)
- Vernon Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Olthoff
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representatives Frizzell, Slager, Smith, V. added as coauthors
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau, Melton and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 201: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 25

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3478e0c2-a8b1-4a2e-bc4e-8b12430a45e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).