---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1071"
citation: "Indiana HB 1071 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WEAPONS", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Mark Messmer", "Sean Eberhart"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b8119d5-8402-43e3-9fb8-a749346bc7d5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1071"
source_hash: "e5cfe66971aa1093532900447758f0674d856ba4b778fcaee8c1606fb335bbfb"
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 1071 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning criminal law and procedure.

## 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/hb1071/versions/hb1071.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1071/versions/hb1071.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1071/versions/hb1071.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1071/versions/hb1071.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1071 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — **72–26** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1071 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **42–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — coauthor (person)
- Terry Goodin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Kirchhofer, Mayfield and Goodin
- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Eberhart
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #3 (Austin) failed; Roll Call 160: yeas 28, nays 68 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #8 (Nisly) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer and Freeman
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 168: yeas 72, nays 26 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 397: yeas 42, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Freeman, Lanane and Crider
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Smaltz, Judy, Lucas and Lawson L
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Eberhart and Goodin
- **2017-04-20** Senator Tomes added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
- **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 517: yeas 74, nays 26
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 506: yeas 38, nays 12
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 221
- **2017-04-27** 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/0b8119d5-8402-43e3-9fb8-a749346bc7d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).