---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "Indiana HB 1286 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Stemler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3134fdfa-009c-4b83-a5c3-6b33ba280fef"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1286"
source_hash: "0ed0cd86a643a34c45d502b010947f19a836019c006a5f63f01e4f37b9e9b544"
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 1286 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development.

## 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/hb1286/versions/hb1286.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1286 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **44–6** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1286 - Stemler - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Stemler — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Davisson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Clere, Davisson and Engleman
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Stemler
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsor: Senator Grooms
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: call withdrawn `reading-3`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #2 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 309: yeas 44, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Houchin added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Clere, Engleman and Kersey
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Mahan and Stemler
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Buck, Tallian and Zay
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Grooms and Breaux
- **2017-04-17** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-19** House reconsidered and concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 504: yeas 96, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 178
- **2017-04-25** 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/3134fdfa-009c-4b83-a5c3-6b33ba280fef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).