---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1237"
citation: "Indiana HB 1237 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "STORAGE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac88d3cb-299b-4a33-9ff4-ebd7d99a2a8f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1237"
source_hash: "d4dd5b378429483bf5b42c29979b578f164e0a6dcf0f927cde8f4d8ea5c9f668"
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 1237 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning commercial law.

## 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/hb1237/versions/hb1237.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1237/versions/hb1237.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1237 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1237 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- James Baird — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- William Friend — 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`
- **2017-02-02** Representatives Baird, Wright, Friend added as coauthors
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #1 (Lehe) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 174: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Boots added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Senators Mrvan and Randolph added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-23** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** 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 433: yeas 96, 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 145
- **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/ac88d3cb-299b-4a33-9ff4-ebd7d99a2a8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).