---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1278"
citation: "Indiana HB 1278 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Disease Control"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Sharon Negele", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c788ca90-d1d1-4f15-8ae8-33455fecdbf2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1278"
source_hash: "751dd360c357b28edc1c2da1ca83b537201214239171f701c5a909dc9177d89b"
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 1278 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

## 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/hb1278/versions/hb1278.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1278/versions/hb1278.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1278/versions/hb1278.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1278/versions/hb1278.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1278 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **100–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1278 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — coauthor (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
- Harold Slager — coauthor (person)
- Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Karlee Macer — coauthor (person)
- Kathy Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Sue Errington — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Negele
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Representatives Sullivan, Kirchhofer, Summers added as coauthors
- **2017-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 100, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-01-30** Representative Smaltz added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-14** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-14** Representatives Austin, Errington, Hamilton, Klinker, Lawson, Macer, McNamara, Olthoff, Pryor, Candelaria Reardon, Richardson, Schaibley, Siegrist, Wright, Ziemke, Zent, Clere, Brown, T., Slager added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Senator Ruckelshaus added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Becker added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senators Breaux, Brown L, Glick, Houchin, Tallian added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-10** Public Law 23
- **2017-04-10** 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/c788ca90-d1d1-4f15-8ae8-33455fecdbf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).