---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1441"
citation: "Indiana HB 1441 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT generally", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Taylor", "Gregory Porter", "Jean Breaux", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbb97458-5b05-42b3-a10b-9d75059109cd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1441"
source_hash: "948b8ca1cf286e2eb4e0598dee6ee67181a3b1ddfc1b763e8108efaa8c2bf428"
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 1441 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1441/versions/hb1441.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1441/versions/hb1441.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1441/versions/hb1441.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1441/versions/hb1441.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1441/versions/hb1441.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1441 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **35–13** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1441 - Porter - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Porter
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Kirchhofer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Representatives Kirchhofer, Shackleford, Moed added as coauthors
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Breaux and Taylor G
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Senator Ruckelshaus
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 378: yeas 35, nays 13 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-06** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-12** Public Law 29
- **2017-04-12** 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/fbb97458-5b05-42b3-a10b-9d75059109cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).