---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1189"
citation: "Indiana HB 1189 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT", "State Police"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Ober", "John Ruckelshaus", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0945a96a-8902-4f00-b84f-dbf3f8a8e675"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1189"
source_hash: "ce4a0c282d82448ebc668167243f97b3a5fe895e86aa1c35831299f864353a84"
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 1189 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety.

## 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/hb1189/versions/hb1189.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1189/versions/hb1189.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1189/versions/hb1189.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1189/versions/hb1189.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1189 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1189 - Ruckelshaus - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- David Ober — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Ober
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Representative Harris added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsors: Senators Ruckelshaus and Doriot
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 152: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-14** Senator Glick added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 270: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 15
- **2017-03-29** 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/0945a96a-8902-4f00-b84f-dbf3f8a8e675`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).