---
type: "Bill"
title: "Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding."
description: "Exempts a woman who is breastfeeding from jury duty. Sets forth requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Indiana SB 139 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS; Generally", "COURTS; Juries", "HEALTH; Pregnancy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Julie Olthoff", "Linda Rogers", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-05"
last_action: "2026-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24750632-0137-414c-b522-808a2e926f8c"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0139"
source_hash: "7d1234752c4e1efa690c3ebfcdb07c78dce17f47e0300ad88956829b79ef7c2f"
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 (2026) — Jury duty exemption for women breastfeeding.

Exempts a woman who is breastfeeding from jury duty. Sets forth requirements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0139/SB0139.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 139 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 139 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jennifer Meltzer — cosponsor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-05** Authored by Senator Donato
- **2026-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-06** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2026-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-12** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-13** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2026-01-13** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2026-01-13** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
- **2026-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 22: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-13** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2026-01-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-29** Representative King added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-02** Representative Meltzer added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-17** Representative Cash added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 340: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Public Law 69 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24750632-0137-414c-b522-808a2e926f8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).