---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1555"
citation: "Indiana HB 1555 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Town Marshals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Douglas Eckerty", "Greg Walker", "Peggy Mayfield"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0daad106-fba1-46d1-8314-5d28b9d27ac6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1555"
source_hash: "1c17e56b1da40284d87ff41826ae691dbb12d9348bb71f6c707e294db5efcc5a"
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 1555 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety.

## 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/hb1555/versions/hb1555.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1555/versions/hb1555.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1555/versions/hb1555.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1555/versions/hb1555.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1555/versions/hb1555.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1555 - Mayfield - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1555 - Walker - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — primary (person)
- Dan Forestal — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Authored by Representative Mayfield
- **2017-01-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #1 (Mayfield) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Representatives Frye and Forestal added as coauthors
- **2017-02-21** Representative Zent added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Walker
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 184: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **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 Eckerty added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-30** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 384: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Buck added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 443: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-18** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 180
- **2017-04-25** 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/0daad106-fba1-46d1-8314-5d28b9d27ac6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).