republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-139.md

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Bill	Adult guardianship services.	Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 139	Indiana SB 139 (2020)	bill	GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS	enacted	Anthony Cook Eric Koch Timothy Lanane Vaneta Becker	4	24	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/139	c78f4feaccda6433b2f4286184d895f2c15b59ea61ca0f45e753405fa0579a56	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 139 (2020) — Adult guardianship services.

Combines the volunteer advocates for seniors program and the volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults programs into one program. Requires that, in submitting a progress report to the court, a volunteer advocate for seniors and incapacitated adults shall include a person centered care plan in the progress report.

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

Votes

• SB 139 - Lanane - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 139 - Cook - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anthony Cook — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• B Patrick Bauer — cosponsor (person)
• Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Lanane
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Senator Stoops added as coauthor
• 2020-01-27 Senator Becker added as second author
• 2020-01-27 Senator Koch added as third author
• 2020-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Senators Buck, Freeman, Rogers, Glick added as coauthors
• 2020-01-30 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 139: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Cook
• 2020-02-04 Cosponsors: Representatives Bauer and Hamilton
• 2020-02-04 Senator Kruse added as coauthor
• 2020-02-05 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 95, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-03-02 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-03 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-11 Public Law 4

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f525435-e7a2-4301-85e3-19e24656bcf4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).