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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 402"
citation: "Indiana SB 402 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Rodric Bray", "Vaneta Becker", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/402"
source_hash: "cc28baa98a1014afa7d5f0f4020169438c06f90df8caa0d0bfdb8f40f4571a3c"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0402/versions/sb0402.04.comh)
## Votes
- SB 402 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **470** (pass) · legislature
- SB 402 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **940** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f948da0-bba1-457c-99ff-5deed1bc4a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).