---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "Indiana HB 1286 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION", "COMPUTERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Heath VanNatter", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cd687a9-e23b-4ddc-90bc-4b42899c28bf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1286"
source_hash: "cd26618086ef2af354b6d9780f2dc3e8369fc3cb86f0cce135b2701bca4db048"
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 1286 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1286/versions/hb1286.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1286 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1286 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **88–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representatives Lehman and Taylor J added as coauthors
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 165: yeas 88, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Amendment #1 (Boots) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 338: yeas 72, nays 17 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 82
- **2018-03-14** 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/6cd687a9-e23b-4ddc-90bc-4b42899c28bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).