---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 312"
citation: "Indiana SB 312 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Wages", "Arbitration", "and Benefits", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Environment", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Daniel Leonard", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8543d82c-a02c-436a-9e00-1365904fd1d6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/312"
source_hash: "179768cdcee024ead4e277c973fb61ce3d473f0092830e7fe2d2e7e9b88ca54b"
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 312 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0312/versions/sb0312.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0312/versions/sb0312.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0312/versions/sb0312.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0312/versions/sb0312.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0312/versions/sb0312.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 312 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **79–12** (pass) · legislature
- SB 312 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **38–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Boots
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #1 (Perfect) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 38, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Leonard
- **2017-02-21** Senator Perfect added as second author
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 79, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 210
- **2017-04-27** 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/8543d82c-a02c-436a-9e00-1365904fd1d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).