Indiana Senate Bill 139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)
Status: Passed on March 22 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-22 - Public Law 193
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Investigation of overdose deaths. Requires the county coroner to do the following if the county coroner reasonably suspects the cause of a person's death to be accidental or intentional overdose of a controlled substance: (1) Obtain any relevant information about the decedent maintained by the INSPECT program. (2) Extract and test certain bodily fluids of the decedent. (3) Report test results to the state department of health (department). (4) Provide the department notice of the decedent's death, including any information related to the controlled substances involved, if any. Authorizes the department to adopt rules. Makes conforming changes. Provides that the

Investigation of overdose deaths. Requires the county coroner to do the following if the county coroner reasonably suspects the cause of a person's death to be accidental or intentional overdose of a controlled substance: (1) Obtain any relevant information about the decedent maintained by the INSPECT program. (2) Extract and test certain bodily fluids of the decedent. (3) Report test results to the state department of health (department). (4) Provide the department notice of the decedent's death, including any information related to the controlled substances involved, if any. Authorizes the department to adopt rules. Makes conforming changes. Provides that the

Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. John Ruckelshaus [R]	Sen. Jeff Raatz [R]
Sen. Jean Breaux [D]	Sen. Joseph Zakas [R]	Rep. Steven Davisson [R]	Rep. Charlie Brown [D]
Rep. Dennis Zent [R]

2018-03-06 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 46 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2018-02-27 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2018-02-20 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2018-02-14 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2018-01-23 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 47 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-17 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-22	Senate	Public Law 193
2018-03-22	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2018-03-21	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2018-03-13	House	Signed by the Speaker
2018-03-12	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2018-03-06	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 339: yeas 46, nays 3
2018-02-28	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2018-02-28	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2018-02-27	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 95, nays 0
2018-02-26	House	Amendment #2 (Bacon) failed; voice vote
2018-02-26	House	Amendment #1 (Davisson) prevailed; voice vote
2018-02-26	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2018-02-22	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2018-02-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
2018-02-15	House	Representative Zent added as cosponsor
2018-02-15	House	Representative Brown, C. added as cosponsor
2018-02-15	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2018-02-06	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2018-01-26	Senate	Referred to the House
2018-01-23	Senate	Senator Zakas added as coauthor
2018-01-23	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Davisson
2018-01-23	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 51: yeas 47, nays 2
2018-01-22	Senate	Senator Breaux added as coauthor
2018-01-22	Senate	Senator Raatz added as coauthor
2018-01-22	Senate	Senator Ruckelshaus added as third author
2018-01-22	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-01-18	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2018-01-11	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as second author
2018-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
2018-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Merritt

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/139/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/2/c/7/42c764d5/SB0139.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/3/6/6/c366bf75/SB0139.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/4/2/3/d42363d6/SB0139.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/7/6/1/d7612680/SB0139.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/6/2/b/062bc960/SB0139.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/a/5/2/1a522bc8/SB0139.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/2/b/1/22b11935/SB0139.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/d/8/f/4d8fd04a/SB0139.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/0/f/c/10fcbc84/SB0139.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/e/4/7/5e470402/SB0139.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/8/9/6/f8967254/SB0139.06.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/d/6/6/6d66917a/SB0139.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/2/0/2/4202d596/SB0139.51.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/2/e/8/82e804ba/SB0139.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/0/e/0/50e08204/SB0139.03.COMH.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/3/b/e/33bedb1e/SB0139.230.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/1/5/3/51532e6c/SB0139.339.pdf