---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning construction."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning construction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 129"
citation: "Indiana SB 129 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION", "HEALTH generally", "HEALTH", "State Department and Agencies", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Dale DeVon", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/263d16e0-9c93-426e-b245-49314c3e32c4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/129"
source_hash: "4c3d6d792b163c8296e8409d75dc34c1ee0fe7a036e47ca1d5a7f6277738b4e1"
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 SB 129 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning construction.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0129/versions/sb0129.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0129/versions/sb0129.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0129/versions/sb0129.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0129/versions/sb0129.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0129/versions/sb0129.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 129 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 129 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 64: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative DeVon
- **2017-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Miller and VanNatter
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Miller D) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 349: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-05** Senate advisors appointed: Freeman, Boots and Lanane
- **2017-04-05** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Stoops
- **2017-04-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** House advisors appointed: Miller D and Errington
- **2017-04-06** House conferees appointed: DeVon and Hamilton
- **2017-04-17** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-17** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-18** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 497: yeas 93, nays 0
- **2017-04-19** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 482: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 163
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/263d16e0-9c93-426e-b245-49314c3e32c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).