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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 446"
citation: "Indiana SB 446 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/446"
source_hash: "f8c85ca11841eb079fb4e99bfd7802bbfac34332053b9b2f284dd8fc21a8102e"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0446/versions/sb0446.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 446 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · legislature
- SB 446 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **950** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fcb42d4-c10d-4322-afc6-b8091e520e9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).