Indiana Senate Bill 158 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Passed on March 13 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-03-13 - Public Law 50
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Scleral tattooing. Defines "scleral tattooing". Prohibits the act of performing or offering to perform scleral tattooing. Provides an exception for the act of a licensed health care professional when the act is performed in the scope of the health care professional's practice. Provides that the attorney general: (1) has authority to receive and investigate complaints regarding violations of the statute; (2) may seek civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation of the statute; and (3) may seek an injunction to restrain a person from continuing to violate the statute.

Scleral tattooing. Defines "scleral tattooing". Prohibits the act of performing or offering to perform scleral tattooing. Provides an exception for the act of a licensed health care professional when the act is performed in the scope of the health care professional's practice. Provides that the attorney general: (1) has authority to receive and investigate complaints regarding violations of the statute; (2) may seek civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation of the statute; and (3) may seek an injunction to restrain a person from continuing to violate the statute.

Sen. John Ruckelshaus [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]	Rep. David Frizzell [R]
Rep. Sean Eberhart [R]	Rep. Charlie Brown [D]	Rep. Ronald Bacon [R]

2018-03-01 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 82 N: 11 NV: 3 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2018-02-26 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2018-01-16 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 42 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2018-01-08 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-13	Senate	Public Law 50
2018-03-13	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2018-03-12	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2018-03-08	House	Signed by the Speaker
2018-03-06	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2018-03-02	House	Returned to the Senate without amendments
2018-03-01	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 275: yeas 82, nays 11
2018-02-28	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-02-26	House	Representative Bacon added as cosponsor
2018-02-26	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2018-02-22	House	Representative Brown, C. added as cosponsor
2018-02-06	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
2018-01-18	Senate	Referred to the House
2018-01-16	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Eberhart
2018-01-16	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
2018-01-16	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 18: yeas 42, nays 5
2018-01-11	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-01-09	Senate	Senator Brown L added as third author
2018-01-09	Senate	Senator Buck added as second author
2018-01-08	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2018-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law
2018-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Ruckelshaus

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/158/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/c/5/0/2c508499/SB0158.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/7/c/527c1e60/SB0158.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/c/7/a/4c7a1cd1/SB0158.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/4/1/3/1413d2b1/SB0158.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/1/f/d/d1fd1eba/SB0158.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/0/a/6/10a6b92b/SB0158.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/4/1/9/a4193210/SB0158.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/8/c/1/68c164a4/SB0158.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/4/0/b/940b365e/SB0158.18.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/e/0/52e0a0ca/SB0158.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/4/3/8543aab4/SB0158.275.pdf