---
type: "Bill"
title: "Full faith and credit for tribal court orders."
description: "Requires that, under certain circumstances, a court of record in Indiana shall give full faith and credit to judgments and orders of a tribal court affiliated with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1441"
citation: "Indiana HB 1441 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS generally", "NATIVE AMERICANS", "TAXES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Edward DeLaney", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e342f68-4a15-4c89-9874-730b37bbc352"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1441"
source_hash: "a250c0071271bccc28e9f76fda442a0e71f14520eafd9c6fe8eee23a870e16bd"
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 1441 (2021) — Full faith and credit for tribal court orders.

Requires that, under certain circumstances, a court of record in Indiana shall give full faith and credit to judgments and orders of a tribal court affiliated with the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1441/versions/HB1441.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1441/versions/HB1441.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1441/versions/HB1441.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1441/versions/HB1441.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1441/versions/HB1441.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1441 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Dvorak — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative DeLaney
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Representative Dvorak added as coauthor
- **2021-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 152: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L and Niezgodski
- **2021-02-18** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-03-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 267: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-25** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 392: yeas 87, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 201
- **2021-04-29** 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/4e342f68-4a15-4c89-9874-730b37bbc352`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).