---
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 390"
citation: "Indiana SB 390 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions", "PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Ruckelshaus", "Mark Stoops", "Michael Karickhoff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18ab41db-c0ee-4b3d-8ee3-1f89c33bc1e3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/390"
source_hash: "ad6bede737082f472a4d9190bc2e5bdbc35b7fa2bf033881d040ef7de35a69f4"
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 390 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0390/versions/sb0390.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0390/versions/sb0390.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0390/versions/sb0390.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0390/versions/sb0390.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 390 - Stoops - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 390 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Mark Stoops — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Brian Bosma — cosponsor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Jerry Torr — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- John Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- John Young — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Stoops
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
- **2017-01-30** Senator Koch added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Senators Doriot, Walker, Crane added as coauthors
- **2017-02-16** Senators Niezgodski and Tallian added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Karickhoff
- **2017-02-21** Cosponsors: Representatives Torr, Pierce and Hamilton
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-03-20** Representatives Bosma, Bartlett, Cherry, Cook, Engleman, Lucas, Mahan, McNamara, Pressel, Shackleford, Stemler, Young J, Olthoff, Schaibley added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 353: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 68
- **2017-04-13** 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/18ab41db-c0ee-4b3d-8ee3-1f89c33bc1e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).