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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 238"
citation: "Indiana SB 238 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS generally", "INDIANAPOLIS", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd47d790-cf85-40ab-a07b-e1e43985a982"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/238"
source_hash: "c35775f9af74f53817f6ddff00d08825bed58e269860bf9e33b820f44a10bf1e"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.05.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.06.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.02.coms)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0238/versions/sb0238.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 238 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · legislature
- SB 238 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **480** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd47d790-cf85-40ab-a07b-e1e43985a982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).