---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 126"
citation: "Indiana SB 126 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["KOSCIUSKO COUNTY", "SUPERIOR COURTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Wolkins", "Randall Head", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/848be1bc-c098-4b24-827f-de9fa437321b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/126"
source_hash: "5eb4d99ba7aaf37ed881dd4db3862fe006b03e89acc5b77145343753a8014f28"
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 126 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.06.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0126/versions/sb0126.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 126 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 126 - Wolkins - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Wolkins — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Curt Nisly — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Mishler added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Glick added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Wolkins
- **2018-01-23** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Nisly added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 273: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-12** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 371: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 156
- **2018-03-21** 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/848be1bc-c098-4b24-827f-de9fa437321b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).