---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 410"
citation: "Indiana SB 410 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NURSES AND NURSING", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "Adult Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Jean Leising", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1724c090-b2ca-4ef1-a45e-cf358dfcf8e4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/410"
source_hash: "1d53de4aa4cb1ec07084300339ca6593511bbc74e4bc1ff93520eb80e09a70db"
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 410 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/sb0410/versions/sb0410.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0410/versions/sb0410.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0410/versions/sb0410.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0410/versions/sb0410.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 410 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 410 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2018-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Leising added as third author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Zakas added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Bacon
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 365: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 129
- **2018-03-16** 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/1724c090-b2ca-4ef1-a45e-cf358dfcf8e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).