---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1235"
citation: "Indiana HB 1235 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "State Agencies and Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d703468-3054-4145-a0be-a37817bf9575"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1235"
source_hash: "c1735a78f540801454fcc878a4f3e3cb60e1847646ce1fe9688c1cb8e0653486"
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 1235 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1235/versions/hb1235.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1235/versions/hb1235.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1235/versions/hb1235.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1235/versions/hb1235.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1235/versions/hb1235.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1235 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1235 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Gutwein — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- James Baird — coauthor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Lehe
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Representatives Baird, Wright, Gutwein added as coauthors
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Glick added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** 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** House conferees appointed: Lehe and Wright
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Baird, Heine and Moed
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Mrvan
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Messmer and Melton
- **2017-04-17** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-18** House reconsidered and concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 489: yeas 88, 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 144
- **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/1d703468-3054-4145-a0be-a37817bf9575`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).