---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Indiana SB 59 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Frizzell", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/59"
source_hash: "f5c0184aea98f3a75270f45eff273bf358498a553808d2715d4ce139b582aaaf"
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 59 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/sb0059/versions/sb0059.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.03.engs)
3. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.06.engh)
4. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.07.enrh)
5. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.01.intr)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.05.comh)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0059/versions/sb0059.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 59 - Head - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 59 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Frizzell — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — cosponsor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Merritt added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2017-02-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-14** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
- **2017-02-16** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Senator Holdman added as coauthor
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Representative Austin added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Frizzell) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 346: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Zay and Stoops
- **2017-04-05** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-05** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Lyness, Klinker and Taylor J
- **2017-04-06** House conferees appointed: Frizzell and Austin
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 527: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 500: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 225
- **2017-04-28** 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/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).