---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1220"
citation: "Indiana HB 1220 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78eb8da4-d25f-4163-9e32-45784e5962f7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1220"
source_hash: "a77125b4479c6e978667ecfed30d0d965dcfe7d35e8f3bf525ad4969a5ad7fbb"
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 HB 1220 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1220/versions/hb1220.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1220/versions/hb1220.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1220/versions/hb1220.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1220/versions/hb1220.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1220/versions/hb1220.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1220 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1220 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Representatives Bacon and Shackleford added as coauthors
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #1 (Davisson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Senator Ruckelshaus added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 345: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 114
- **2018-03-15** 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/78eb8da4-d25f-4163-9e32-45784e5962f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).