---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1069"
citation: "Indiana HB 1069 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ronald Bacon", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0d583b4-e040-4ee0-8328-2bf32a934d34"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1069"
source_hash: "38366bf09f9f5cc6320e41b6b47fabcef53113c91cdd66829e89b5c4f81f6dfa"
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 1069 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1069/versions/hb1069.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1069/versions/hb1069.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1069/versions/hb1069.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1069/versions/hb1069.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1069/versions/hb1069.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1069 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **33–15** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1069 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **93–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Bacon
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-10** Representative Siegrist S added as coauthor
- **2017-01-12** Representative Pierce added as coauthor
- **2017-01-12** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Amendment #2 (Wesco) prevailed; Roll Call 25: yeas 68, nays 31 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Becker
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 35: yeas 93, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 33, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-15** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 448: 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 130
- **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/d0d583b4-e040-4ee0-8328-2bf32a934d34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).