---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 184"
citation: "Indiana SB 184 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Holli Sullivan", "Jon Ford", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e00c2a2e-b222-479e-823e-76d028545d49"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/184"
source_hash: "2dff0426d31ec49536efd3e81d146102524968a3266be7bc9e683abfe7b1f0f1"
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 184 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

## 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/sb0184/versions/sb0184.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0184/versions/sb0184.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0184/versions/sb0184.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0184/versions/sb0184.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 184 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 184 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Zay
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-04** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2018-01-18** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 56: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Sullivan
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Judy, Morris and GiaQuinta
- **2018-01-23** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Amendment #1 (Klinker) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2018-02-19** Amendment #2 (Austin) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 12

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e00c2a2e-b222-479e-823e-76d028545d49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).