---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1091"
citation: "Indiana HB 1091 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PORNOGRAPHY", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Michael Young", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22bd073e-d73a-4f07-8f6c-fcd8366c48b2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1091"
source_hash: "234bbf1585f25d8757c16cb72104c4053134fab1678122d97eaddd8cee3384e9"
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 1091 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code 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/hb1091/versions/hb1091.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1091/versions/hb1091.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1091 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1091 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-05** Authored by Representative Washburne
- **2017-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Representative Hatfield added as coauthor
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Tomes
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 303: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Young M added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 425: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 132
- **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/22bd073e-d73a-4f07-8f6c-fcd8366c48b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).