republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1438.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1438	Indiana HB 1438 (2017)	bill	DRUGS Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse HEALTH State Department and Agencies	enacted	Cindy Kirchhofer Ed Charbonneau James Merritt	4	23	2	2017-01-17	2017-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/26b7d857-219d-47a0-9cbf-7e77fe9d56ae	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1438	79ef591031980f0d2b849c8d446048d70b2708a2e6745d23948c0cd867f81e3e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1438 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1438 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — 72–26 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1438 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 32–16 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
• Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
• Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
• Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Davisson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-17 Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
• 2017-01-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Representative Davisson added as coauthor
• 2017-01-30 Representative Brown, C. added as coauthor
• 2017-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Representative Zent added as coauthor
• 2017-01-31 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 38: yeas 72, nays 26 reading-3, passage
• 2017-01-31 Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt and Charbonneau
• 2017-02-01 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-27 Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-27 Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-27 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-04 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 419: yeas 32, nays 16 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-06 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-11 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-26 Public Law 198
• 2017-04-26 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26b7d857-219d-47a0-9cbf-7e77fe9d56ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).