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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: "2017"
identifier: "SB 243"
citation: "Indiana SB 243 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "John Ruckelshaus", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98bd8025-ef31-4e16-a300-a562e794ab4c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/243"
source_hash: "2ceb7c957766d4921e93be9900739d25cc38a686724a02d444b88050f4ca2b10"
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 243 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0243/versions/sb0243.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0243/versions/sb0243.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0243/versions/sb0243.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0243/versions/sb0243.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0243/versions/sb0243.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 243 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **461** (pass) · legislature
- SB 243 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **880** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Randall Head — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Merritt removed as author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Crider added as author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Merritt added as third author
- **2017-02-06** Senator Merritt removed as third author
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Ruckelshaus added as third author
- **2017-02-13** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Head added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 153: yeas 46, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Representatives Zent, Shackleford, Brown, C. added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-03-28** Representative Bacon added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 333: yeas 88, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 434: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 168
- **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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98bd8025-ef31-4e16-a300-a562e794ab4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).