republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/sb-233.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2018	SB 233	Indiana SB 233 (2018)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS Department of Child Services CHILDREN AND MINORS Foster Care	enacted	Jon Ford Mike Bohacek Ronald Grooms Wendy McNamara	4	28	2	2018-01-03	2018-03-07	openstates	ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/233	c332fd84b58ff701a25d8001dc86167bcb14246be52e51725d37db22c9802f22	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 233 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

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

Votes

• SB 233 - Ford - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 233 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
• David Frizzell — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
• Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
• Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — coauthor (person)
• Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Randall Head — coauthor (person)
• Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Authored by Senator Ford
• 2018-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-09 Senator Grooms added as second author
• 2018-01-09 Senator Bohacek added as third author
• 2018-01-16 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
• 2018-01-16 Senators Zay, Holdman, Becker added as coauthors
• 2018-01-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-22 Senator Breaux added as coauthor
• 2018-01-23 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-23 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2018-01-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-25 House sponsor: Representative McNamara
• 2018-01-25 Cosponsor: Representative Frizzell
• 2018-01-25 Senator Head added as coauthor
• 2018-01-25 Senator Crane added as coauthor
• 2018-01-29 Referred to the House
• 2018-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-13 Representative Macer added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-15 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-20 Representative Zent added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-21 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2018-02-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-01 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-06 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-07 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2018-03-07 Public Law 13

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).