---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1203"
citation: "Indiana HB 1203 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "Local Boards and Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Breaux", "Ryan Mishler", "Sean Eberhart", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3312df9-d874-4863-91fb-d978da491af3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1203"
source_hash: "5f36c43af7899f504d94e25f894d828af86dee07732081f96a6008edb4ac0c0d"
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 1203 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

## 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/hb1203/versions/hb1203.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1203/versions/hb1203.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1203/versions/hb1203.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1203/versions/hb1203.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1203 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **31–18** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1203 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — **88–8** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean Breaux — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Crider — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Authored by Representative Eberhart
- **2018-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Representatives Shackleford and Brown, C. added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Frizzell added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 47: yeas 88, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Breaux and Mishler
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsor: Senator Crider
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 316: yeas 31, nays 18 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 113
- **2018-03-15** 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/b3312df9-d874-4863-91fb-d978da491af3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).