---
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 1391"
citation: "Indiana HB 1391 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Frizzell", "Randall Head", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c380bc01-4288-4d69-b4ba-97a32643641d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1391"
source_hash: "aab68c96054119811bcefe02694e6ccb8cca8c2c0215d1db16f47a0a80d0ff97"
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 1391 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1391/versions/hb1391.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1391/versions/hb1391.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1391/versions/hb1391.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1391/versions/hb1391.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1391/versions/hb1391.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1391 - Head - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1391 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Frizzell — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Daniel Leonard — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Frizzell
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Representatives Austin, Leonard, Lawson added as coauthors
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Head and Grooms
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #2 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 374: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Niezgodski
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Grooms, Tallian and Ford
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Frizzell and Austin
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Leonard, Taylor J and Klinker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 519: yeas 48, nays 1
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 536: yeas 99, nays 0
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 192
- **2017-04-26** 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/c380bc01-4288-4d69-b4ba-97a32643641d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).