---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1243"
citation: "Indiana HB 1243 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BEAUTY CULTURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Liz Brown", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02feb627-80a9-48e3-8375-4ea6164bdad1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1243"
source_hash: "ecbb1de4ad08fba7ec7515a6081b0aae3a3a75c1fc04b4c2cc4730c7610a4868"
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 1243 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/hb1243/versions/hb1243.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1243/versions/hb1243.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1243/versions/hb1243.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1243/versions/hb1243.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1243 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **82–11** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1243 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **42–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Wesco
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Representatives VanNatter and Summers added as coauthors
- **2017-02-13** Representative Pryor added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 82, nays 11 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Zay added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 414: yeas 42, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Representative Pryor removed as coauthor
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Speedy and Summers
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Wesco and Pryor
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Ruckelshaus and Taylor G
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-20** Representative VanNatter removed as advisor
- **2017-04-20** Representative VanNatter added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Representative Pryor removed as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Breaux added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Zay added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Breaux removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 515: yeas 42, nays 7
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 534: yeas 61, nays 37
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 189
- **2017-04-26** 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/02feb627-80a9-48e3-8375-4ea6164bdad1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).