---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1324"
citation: "Indiana HB 1324 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MILITARY FORCES", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Dan Forestal", "David Niezgodski", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52b7c4bc-b29b-407f-9f12-3b6f04434fdd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1324"
source_hash: "c2e61145f90d0271ddcba59337d8d8f61eda74c989e0b1feb85914189dfa7557"
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 1324 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning military and veterans.

## 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/hb1324/versions/hb1324.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1324/versions/hb1324.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1324/versions/hb1324.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1324/versions/hb1324.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1324 - Forestal - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1324 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **44–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Dan Forestal — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Young — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Forestal
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Representatives Frye, Macer, Judy added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider and Niezgodski
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 132: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `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 Doriot added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 44, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-23** Senator Young M 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
- **2017-04-04** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-05** Public Law 22
- **2017-04-05** 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/52b7c4bc-b29b-407f-9f12-3b6f04434fdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).