republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/sb-238.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2018	SB 238	Indiana SB 238 (2018)	bill	COURTS generally INDIANAPOLIS SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS	enacted	Aaron Freeman Gregory Steuerwald Rodric Bray	6	30	2	2018-01-03	2018-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/cd47d790-cf85-40ab-a07b-e1e43985a982	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/238	c35775f9af74f53817f6ddff00d08825bed58e269860bf9e33b820f44a10bf1e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 238 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 238 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 238 - Bray - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• Rodric Bray — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Authored by Senator Bray
• 2018-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Senator Freeman added as second author
• 2018-02-05 Senator Koch added as coauthor
• 2018-02-05 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2018-02-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 171: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-06 House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
• 2018-02-07 Referred to the House
• 2018-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-20 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-22 Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-26 Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2018-02-26 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 236: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2018-03-06 Motion to concur filed
• 2018-03-07 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 358: yeas 46, nays 1 amendment-failure
• 2018-03-12 Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
• 2018-03-13 Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
• 2018-03-13 Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
• 2018-03-14 Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
• 2018-03-15 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-19 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-20 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-21 Public Law 161
• 2018-03-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd47d790-cf85-40ab-a07b-e1e43985a982. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).