republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/sb-44.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2018	SB 44	Indiana SB 44 (2018)	bill	CORRECTION Department of MENTAL HEALTH State Department and Institutions	enacted	Jim Pressel Mike Bohacek Rick Niemeyer	5	23	2	2018-01-03	2018-03-07	openstates	ocd-bill/23a3e1cc-b662-4a4b-aa18-ee80aa7ecdf1	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/44	84baa8ffd8bbaaf44e519163fad161cf0764d8d91e8eb7271bc27eb64c2898dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 44 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.

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
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 44 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — 44–5 (pass) · legislature
• SB 44 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — 79–13 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jim Pressel — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
• Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Authored by Senator Long
• 2018-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-08 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2018-01-08 Senator Long removed as author
• 2018-01-08 Senator Bohacek added as author
• 2018-01-16 Senator Niemeyer added as second author
• 2018-01-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-18 Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
• 2018-01-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-01-23 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2018-01-29 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 44, nays 5 reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-29 House sponsor: Representative Pressel
• 2018-01-30 Referred to the House
• 2018-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-15 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 79, nays 13 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 7

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23a3e1cc-b662-4a4b-aa18-ee80aa7ecdf1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).