---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1260"
citation: "Indiana HB 1260 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["RAILROADS", "EMINENT DOMAIN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Edmond Soliday", "James Buck", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c733d76-6597-419d-a90c-d58db3f12f84"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1260"
source_hash: "1f415136379cfdd19c8f6a9815644efa9664c1f6facb11b6f7c37e92db47703b"
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 1260 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation.

## 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/hb1260/versions/hb1260.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1260/versions/hb1260.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1260 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1260 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representative Aylesworth
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Representative Pressel added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 23: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-26** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Niemeyer
- **2017-01-27** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Buck added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph 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 434: 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 146
- **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/3c733d76-6597-419d-a90c-d58db3f12f84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).