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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 233"
citation: "Indiana SB 233 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jon Ford", "Mike Bohacek", "Ronald Grooms", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/233"
source_hash: "c332fd84b58ff701a25d8001dc86167bcb14246be52e51725d37db22c9802f22"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0233/versions/sb0233.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 233 - Ford - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · legislature
- SB 233 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **940** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/343e37a6-4fda-4e14-8a53-6157772a4f6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).