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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1444"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1444 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COMPUTERS", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Blake Doriot", "Chris Judy", "Randall Head"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fc95d02-b30e-4714-8c24-f4d4d2af0540"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1444"
+source_hash: "46b6e17c5ce98e367d4646a299b08db382fa1acc747894fb0a09006648eabe16"
+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 1444 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning telecommunications.
+
+## 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/hb1444/versions/hb1444.05.engs)
+2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1444/versions/hb1444.03.engh)
+3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1444/versions/hb1444.06.enrs)
+4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1444/versions/hb1444.02.comh)
+5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1444/versions/hb1444.04.coms)
+6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1444/versions/hb1444.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1444 - Judy - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1444 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andy Zay — primary (person)
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Chris Judy — primary (person)
+- Randall Head — primary (person)
+- Brandt Hershman — cosponsor (person)
+- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
+- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Speedy — coauthor (person)
+- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
+- Ryan Dvorak — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Judy
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Representative Dvorak added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Dvorak) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Representatives Morris and Speedy added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-22** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2017-02-22** Representative Schaibley added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Zay, Doriot and Head
+- **2017-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 200: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
+- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-28** Senator Hershman added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-04** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-04** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 420: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-18** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 490: yeas 88, 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 153
+- **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/9fc95d02-b30e-4714-8c24-f4d4d2af0540`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+