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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1237"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1237 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "STORAGE"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Philip Boots"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac88d3cb-299b-4a33-9ff4-ebd7d99a2a8f"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1237"
+source_hash: "d4dd5b378429483bf5b42c29979b578f164e0a6dcf0f927cde8f4d8ea5c9f668"
+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 HB 1237 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.05.engs)
+2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.03.engh)
+3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.06.enrs)
+4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.02.comh)
+5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.04.coms)
+6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1237 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1237 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Don Lehe — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Philip Boots — primary (person)
+- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
+- James Baird — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
+- William Friend — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Lehe
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Representatives Baird, Wright, Friend added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-16** Amendment #1 (Lehe) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 174: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
+- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-23** Senator Boots added as second sponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-21** Senators Mrvan and Randolph added as cosponsors
+- **2017-03-23** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 433: yeas 96, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-24** Public Law 145
+- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2017-04-24** 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/ac88d3cb-299b-4a33-9ff4-ebd7d99a2a8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+