---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1287"
citation: "Indiana HB 1287 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLOOD; BLOOD BANKS", "HEALTH", "Health Care Reform", "CHILDREN AND MINORS generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Heath VanNatter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/005dab18-8c69-4e1f-bf23-7717786350c9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1287"
source_hash: "4d8b63ba6cfafcc0569550efb08ecef1fb5c44317e7106a140e39b06345c1687"
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 1287 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## 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/hb1287/versions/hb1287.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1287 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1287 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Brown, C. added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** Representative Austin added as coauthor
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Senator Becker added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 219: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-21** 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 38

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/005dab18-8c69-4e1f-bf23-7717786350c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).