---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1248"
citation: "Indiana HB 1248 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Children with Special Health Needs", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Mike Bohacek", "Sharon Negele"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c608f981-0515-48fc-9f59-e99c865e053a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1248"
source_hash: "7a1bcaa96b8c0aa78816c47349a17c1514ab14fdc83390815417c6f651e29c32"
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 1248 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning public safety.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1248/versions/hb1248.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1248/versions/hb1248.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1248/versions/hb1248.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1248/versions/hb1248.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1248 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1248 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Milo Smith — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Negele
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Representative Hamm added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsor: Senator Houchin
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-02-15** Representatives Bartels, Cook, DeVon, Frizzell, Mahan, Smith, M., Summers, Taylor J, Ziemke added as coauthors
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Lanane added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Bohacek added as second sponsor
- **2018-03-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Senator Zakas added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 295: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 348: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 115
- **2018-03-15** 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/c608f981-0515-48fc-9f59-e99c865e053a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).