---
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 1337"
citation: "Indiana HB 1337 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c0bfc1b-e02d-4a6f-9628-800ad12d04ee"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1337"
source_hash: "2257abec9a9a8145c58b25398462ba5c6681bcd5f72c2137fcab0ef47ebddb24"
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 1337 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1337/versions/hb1337.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1337 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1337 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **91–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Head — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Representative Bacon added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Shackleford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Kirchhofer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2017-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 91, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Senator Head added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Brown L added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #2 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 399: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 457: yeas 84, nays 7 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 150
- **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/7c0bfc1b-e02d-4a6f-9628-800ad12d04ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).