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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 402"
citation: "Indiana SB 402 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "James Merritt", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9af92cf6-0ce4-4e40-bff2-cc7652274d82"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/402"
source_hash: "527d2a34a1a11f058b35ec1bdd03c86d02a981678ed74153ab94d43ec8ee2695"
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 402 (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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 402 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · legislature
- SB 402 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **870** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 145: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
- **2017-02-20** Senator Grooms added as second author
- **2017-02-20** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Taylor J added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #2 (Kirchhofer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 392: yeas 87, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-17** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 474: yeas 46, 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 172
- **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/9af92cf6-0ce4-4e40-bff2-cc7652274d82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).