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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1431"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1431 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["OPEN DOOR LAW"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "John Ruckelshaus", "Liz Brown", "Philip GiaQuinta"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6024146b-e919-4460-a2e6-384d2f4daf7f"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1431"
+source_hash: "cb20390ef0cb1354a48bdfe959543668800ae00cd07710bee07b444acbf006a8"
+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 1431 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.
+
+## 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/hb1431/versions/hb1431.04.engs)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1431/versions/hb1431.05.enrs)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1431/versions/hb1431.02.comh)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1431/versions/hb1431.03.coms)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1431/versions/hb1431.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1431 - GiaQuinta - 3rd Reading — **87–1** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1431 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Philip GiaQuinta — primary (person)
+- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
+- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Coauthored by Representative Lehman
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative GiaQuinta
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-09** Representatives Pryor and Engleman added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-16** Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L, Kruse and Ruckelshaus
+- **2017-02-16** Cosponsor: Senator Niezgodski
+- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 138: yeas 87, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-17** Referred to the Senate
+- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 281: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-22** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 481: yeas 84, nays 3 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-26** Public Law 197
+- **2017-04-26** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6024146b-e919-4460-a2e6-384d2f4daf7f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+