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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1571"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1571 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DEATH", "CEMETERIES AND DEAD BODIES", "CORONERS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Ryan Hatfield", "Vaneta Becker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-23"
+last_action: "2017-04-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cc74387-af55-4bc6-acf1-3e2892577edd"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1571"
+source_hash: "20522666e010e533fdbcc14bf75ea6eb19ef6101d33279004f7a4ad35a34a092"
+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 1571 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1571/versions/hb1571.04.enrs)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1571/versions/hb1571.03.coms)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1571/versions/hb1571.02.comh)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1571/versions/hb1571.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1571 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1571 - Hatfield - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James Tomes — primary (person)
+- Ryan Hatfield — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-23** Coauthored by Representative Bacon
+- **2017-01-23** Authored by Representative Hatfield
+- **2017-01-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Becker
+- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 80: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
+- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 319: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-28** Senator Tomes added as second sponsor
+- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 464: yeas 87, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-24** Public Law 160
+- **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/5cc74387-af55-4bc6-acf1-3e2892577edd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+