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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 253"
+citation: "Indiana SB 253 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "State Department and Agencies", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Wages", "Arbitration", "and Benefits", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Worker's Compensation", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Karen Tallian", "Philip Boots", "Vaneta Becker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/253"
+source_hash: "c49ea70641d93f48812c1ca18f16b50da92045ac6ba09dd4e6eae5a699725d03"
+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 SB 253 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 253 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **93–2** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 253 - Tallian - 3rd Reading — **35–14** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Ober — primary (person)
+- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
+- Philip Boots — primary (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
+- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
+- Linda Lawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Tallian
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 35, nays 14 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Ober
+- **2017-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Lawson
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Becker added as second author
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Boots added as third author
+- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 93, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 56
+- **2017-04-13** 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/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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