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type: "Bill"
title: "Drug scheduling."
description: "Adds new scheduled drugs (including emergency scheduled drugs) to the statutory drug schedules. Defines \"isomer\". Defines \"narcotic\" to include opium esters, ethers, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers. Makes other changes and conforming amendments. Makes a technical correction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 194"
citation: "Indiana SB 194 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Controlled Substances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Jack Sandlin", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd4a5d67-490d-471b-bbbc-a85b371733ed"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/194"
source_hash: "7dd8a7117ebd02274d301a364ad16345ff678f265871043c8af3fecc2dc242a1"
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 194 (2020) — Drug scheduling.
Adds new scheduled drugs (including emergency scheduled drugs) to the statutory drug schedules. Defines "isomer". Defines "narcotic" to include opium esters, ethers, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers. Makes other changes and conforming amendments. Makes a technical correction.
## 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/2020/bills/SB0194/versions/SB0194.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0194/versions/SB0194.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0194/versions/SB0194.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0194/versions/SB0194.02.COMS)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0194/versions/SB0194.03.COMH)
## Votes
- SB 194 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **481** (pass) · upper
- SB 194 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **900** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Young M
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 19: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-14** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2020-01-14** Senator Sandlin added as second author
- **2020-01-15** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Errington); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 203: yeas 59, nays 29
- **2020-02-24** Amendment #1 (Pierce) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-24** Amendment #2 (Errington) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 327: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 61
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd4a5d67-490d-471b-bbbc-a85b371733ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).