republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-156.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 156	Indiana SB 156 (2017)	bill	ADMINISTRATION STATE DEPARTMENT OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES DRUGS Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION HEALTH State Department and Agencies HUMAN SERVICES LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY	enacted	Ed Charbonneau Edward Clere James Merritt	5	28	2	2017-01-04	2017-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/cac24b2a-4be2-40cc-95a3-ff6ff47b7071	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/156	83081373f367820e1d1920c474538b267250d63a2a4cc88418f0a7c78e285154	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 156 (2017) — 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 Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 156 - Clere - 3rd Reading — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 156 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• Edward Clere — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
• Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-04 Authored by Senator Merritt
• 2017-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Senator Charbonneau added as second author
• 2017-01-26 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Placed back on second reading reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Amendment #2 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-01-31 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Senator Breaux added as coauthor
• 2017-01-31 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2017-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 45, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-02 House sponsor: Representative Clere
• 2017-02-02 Cosponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
• 2017-02-02 Senator Kruse added as coauthor
• 2017-02-08 Referred to the House
• 2017-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 375: yeas 98, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-05 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-05 Representatives Brown, C. and Ziemke added as cosponsors
• 2017-04-12 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-17 Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 472: yeas 45, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-25 Public Law 165
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cac24b2a-4be2-40cc-95a3-ff6ff47b7071. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).