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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Welding certifications on public works projects."
+description: "Requires that contractors on a public works project meet certain standards relating to the welding of structural steel."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1211"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1211 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["METALS AND METAL DEALERS", "PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; PUBLIC PROPERTY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Mark Messmer", "Michael Karickhoff"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-10"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/913f6acb-3df1-4d83-a15f-4f71e4780e8c"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1211"
+source_hash: "db4be340565704edf455fc2d1e452f6c165f7a58f0ec89d3d7ab720a9c5e7dcf"
+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 1211 (2023) — Welding certifications on public works projects.
+
+Requires that contractors on a public works project meet certain standards relating to the welding of structural steel.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/HB1211/versions/HB1211.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1211/versions/HB1211.02.COMH)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1211/versions/HB1211.03.COMS)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1211/versions/HB1211.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1211 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **42–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
+- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
+- Dan Dernulc — cosponsor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
+- Greg Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
+- James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
+- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
+- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
+- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
+- Jon Ford — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Andrade — coauthor (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
+- Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
+- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-10** Authored by Representative Karickhoff
+- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-12** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
+- **2023-01-12** Representatives Pressel and Andrade M added as coauthors
+- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-31** Senate sponsors: Senators Doriot and Messmer
+- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-01** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-07** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-13** Senators Dernulc and Pol added as cosponsors
+- **2023-03-13** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-13** Senator Tomes added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 216: yeas 42, nays 5 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-14** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-14** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-14** Senators Crane and Ford J.D. added as cosponsors
+- **2023-03-14** Senator Ford Jon added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-14** Senators Glick, Yoder, Breaux added as cosponsors
+- **2023-03-14** Senator Walker G added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-15** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-03-20** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2023-03-21** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 288: yeas 94, nays 0
+- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 70 `became-law`
+- **2023-04-20** 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/913f6acb-3df1-4d83-a15f-4f71e4780e8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+