---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1644"
citation: "Indiana HB 1644 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STUDY COMMITTEES", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Randall Head", "Vanessa Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-24"
last_action: "2017-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47085b6a-8938-45b9-8c16-23c8d5bf636a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1644"
source_hash: "fa727fbcbe6c14dd9927d83e16bfd1d216229f811a5a7ebf48a8f3176ce7447a"
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 1644 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning human services.

## 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/hb1644/versions/hb1644.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1644/versions/hb1644.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1644/versions/hb1644.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1644/versions/hb1644.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1644 - Summers - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1644 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Vanessa Summers — primary (person)
- Alan Morrison — coauthor (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-24** Authored by Representative Summers
- **2017-01-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Representatives Torr and Morrison added as coauthors
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsors: Senators Head and Niezgodski
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 297: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** 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 35
- **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/47085b6a-8938-45b9-8c16-23c8d5bf636a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).