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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 59"
+citation: "Indiana SB 59 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Frizzell", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-03"
+last_action: "2017-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/59"
+source_hash: "f5c0184aea98f3a75270f45eff273bf358498a553808d2715d4ce139b582aaaf"
+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 59 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.04.engs)
+2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.03.engs)
+3. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.06.engh)
+4. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.07.enrh)
+5. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.01.intr)
+6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.05.comh)
+7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 59 - Head - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 59 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Frizzell — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Randall Head — primary (person)
+- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
+- James Buck — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
+- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
+- Terri Jo Austin — cosponsor (person)
+- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
+- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-30** Senator Merritt added as second author
+- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-02** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-07** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-14** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-14** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
+- **2017-02-16** Senator Buck added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Senator Holdman added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-17** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Representative Austin added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Frizzell) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-03** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 346: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Zay and Stoops
+- **2017-04-05** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Randolph Lonnie M
+- **2017-04-05** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2017-04-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-06** House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Lyness, Klinker and Taylor J
+- **2017-04-06** House conferees appointed: Frizzell and Austin
+- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 527: yeas 97, nays 0
+- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 500: yeas 47, nays 0
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-28** Public Law 225
+- **2017-04-28** 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/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+