---
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 1289"
citation: "Indiana HB 1289 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Ronald Bacon", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3573945-ad12-4959-9027-499908c661e3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1289"
source_hash: "7a70ee775ae45ac671a0e0eeef46a357201ae081f2dda2617c1567393a0e8b35"
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 1289 (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/hb1289/versions/hb1289.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1289/versions/hb1289.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1289/versions/hb1289.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1289/versions/hb1289.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1289 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **28–20** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1289 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **75–19** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Brandt Hershman — cosponsor (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Randall Head — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Bacon
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Representative Ober added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Representative Morris added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsor: Senator Becker
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 235: yeas 75, nays 19 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-05** Senator Head added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Senator Lanane added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 415: yeas 28, nays 20 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Senator Hershman added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 480: yeas 78, nays 10 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 267
- **2017-05-02** 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/d3573945-ad12-4959-9027-499908c661e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).