---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1036"
citation: "Indiana HB 1036 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANAPOLIS", "JUDGES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "James Merritt", "John Ruckelshaus", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a551982-e444-4ae2-bdc0-e56ed3146039"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1036"
source_hash: "7f3679cbaa7b4ca88615bab5243256a50e8525bfcbf951f7b9f48df1309b6eec"
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 1036 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/hb1036/versions/hb1036.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1036/versions/hb1036.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1036 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **33–15** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1036 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **68–29** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Brian Bosma — coauthor (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Bosma, Frizzell and DeLaney
- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-31** Amendment #4 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 42: yeas 30, nays 61 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 45: yeas 68, nays 29 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt, Bray and Ruckelshaus
- **2017-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 367: yeas 33, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Bray, Breaux, Young M and Delph
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Taylor G
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Washburne, Frizzell, Bartlett, DeLaney and Pryor
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Bauer
- **2017-04-11** Senator Freeman added as advisor
- **2017-04-21** Representative Frizzell added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Representative Frizzell removed as advisor
- **2017-04-21** Representative Bauer removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 548: yeas 69, nays 30
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 537: yeas 28, nays 22
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 245
- **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/5a551982-e444-4ae2-bdc0-e56ed3146039`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).