---
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 1396"
citation: "Indiana HB 1396 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Teachers", "MILITARY FORCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Luke Kenley", "Susan Glick", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3ad7f5-610e-4cd6-a0bf-f625e6c30d92"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1396"
source_hash: "5e2e1994339662db7645b8c50bcc505f9ca321d4a1130cbc41e292c673ec84ff"
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 1396 (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/hb1396/versions/hb1396.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1396/versions/hb1396.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1396/versions/hb1396.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1396/versions/hb1396.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1396 - Kenley - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1396 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lloyd Arnold — 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 McNamara
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Representatives Arnold, Cook, Austin added as coauthors
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 75: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsors: Senators Kenley and Raatz
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Senator Glick added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 279: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Senators Tomes and Crane added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-03-23** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 20
- **2017-03-29** 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/eb3ad7f5-610e-4cd6-a0bf-f625e6c30d92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).