---
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: "SB 142"
citation: "Indiana SB 142 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "PREGNANCIES", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Jean Leising", "Karen Engleman", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7990276-0c76-4f61-9f40-ce0417c8110f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/142"
source_hash: "59148022f415bccf40879a6bf770f7d700aae84f6bdad9cdc32ad5dbc2bda1fe"
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 142 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0142/versions/sb0142.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0142/versions/sb0142.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0142/versions/sb0142.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0142/versions/sb0142.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0142/versions/sb0142.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 142 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 142 - Engleman - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Karen Engleman — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2018-01-09** Senator Becker added as third author
- **2018-01-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Amendment #1 (Charbonneau) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 25: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Engleman
- **2018-01-18** Cosponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-18** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2018-01-19** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Brown, C. added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 277: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** 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 48

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7990276-0c76-4f61-9f40-ce0417c8110f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).