republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/sb-402.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 402	Indiana SB 402 (2018)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS Child Support Custody and Visitation CHILDREN AND MINORS Department of Child Services CHILDREN AND MINORS Juvenile Courts and Proceedings DRUGS Testing CHILDREN AND MINORS Foster Care	enacted	Erin Houchin Rodric Bray Vaneta Becker Wendy McNamara	5	23	2	2018-01-08	2018-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/402	cc28baa98a1014afa7d5f0f4020169438c06f90df8caa0d0bfdb8f40f4571a3c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 402 (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. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 402 - Becker - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 402 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Erin Houchin — primary (person)
• Rodric Bray — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Holli Sullivan — cosponsor (person)
• James Tomes — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Ronald Bacon — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-08 Authored by Senator Becker
• 2018-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-23 Senator Bray added as second author
• 2018-01-23 Senator Houchin added as third author
• 2018-02-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-05 Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2018-02-05 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2018-02-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 190: yeas 47, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-06 House sponsor: Representative McNamara
• 2018-02-06 Cosponsors: Representatives Bacon and Sullivan
• 2018-02-06 Senator Tomes added as coauthor
• 2018-02-07 Referred to the House
• 2018-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-26 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-28 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-03-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-02 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2018-03-06 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-08 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2018-03-13 Public Law 62

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).