republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-446.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 446	Indiana SB 446 (2017)	bill	DRUGS Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse HEALTH State Department and Agencies BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS	enacted	Cindy Kirchhofer Ed Charbonneau James Merritt	5	26	2	2017-01-12	2017-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/446	f8c85ca11841eb079fb4e99bfd7802bbfac34332053b9b2f284dd8fc21a8102e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 446 (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 (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 446 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 446 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
• Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
• Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-12 Authored by Senator Merritt
• 2017-01-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Senator Breaux added as coauthor
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-20 Senator Charbonneau added as second author
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 163: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-21 House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
• 2017-02-21 Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
• 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 and Brown, C. added as cosponsors
• 2017-03-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 323: yeas 95, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-28 Rule 105.1 suspended
• 2017-03-28 Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-29 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-17 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-18 Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 477: yeas 49, 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 174
• 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/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).