republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-279.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 279	Indiana SB 279 (2017)	bill	HEALTH Disease Control HEALTH generally HEALTH Health Care Costs; Health Insurance VICTIMS OF CRIME	enacted	Cindy Kirchhofer Ed Charbonneau Timothy Lanane	6	25	2	2017-01-09	2017-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/3b35004f-dea8-4e69-be5a-44a4b7983db6	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/279	3b09bc3e9ee70124051bf9045c7ead3e3541d6396defe33b36fa379071f34c2f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 279 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 279 - Lanane - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 279 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — 96–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
• Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
• Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Authored by Senator Lanane
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-02 Senator Charbonneau added as second author
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-23 Senator Crider added as coauthor
• 2017-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 223: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-28 House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
• 2017-02-28 Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, C. and Errington
• 2017-02-28 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2017-03-01 Referred to the House
• 2017-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Representative Zent added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-03 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 412: yeas 96, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-07 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-19 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-20 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-21 Public Law 104
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b35004f-dea8-4e69-be5a-44a4b7983db6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).