---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adult guardianship services."
description: "Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Indiana SB 139 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Eric Koch", "Timothy Lanane", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/139"
source_hash: "c78f4feaccda6433b2f4286184d895f2c15b59ea61ca0f45e753405fa0579a56"
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 139 (2020) — Adult guardianship services.

Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0139/versions/SB0139.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 139 - Lanane - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 139 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — cosponsor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Lanane
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2020-01-27** Senator Becker added as second author
- **2020-01-27** Senator Koch added as third author
- **2020-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Senators Buck, Freeman, Rogers, Glick added as coauthors
- **2020-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 139: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-04** House sponsor: Representative Cook
- **2020-02-04** Cosponsors: Representatives Bauer and Hamilton
- **2020-02-04** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2020-02-05** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-11** Public Law 4

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).