---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1048"
citation: "Indiana HB 1048 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Adoption", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Mike Aylesworth", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87cf0562-aa69-4281-a4db-a44c3ca7be3b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1048"
source_hash: "6019fda960fca37ed28d237004b42eb56252c9e9de1ce5c251d9b55e0a581f19"
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 1048 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning family law and juvenile law.

## 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/2017/bills/hb1048/versions/hb1048.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1048/versions/hb1048.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1048/versions/hb1048.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1048/versions/hb1048.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1048/versions/hb1048.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1048 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **49–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1048 - Aylesworth - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Aylesworth
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Representatives DeLaney, Burton, Young J added as coauthors
- **2017-02-02** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 52: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsors: Senators Niemeyer and Charbonneau
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: call withdrawn `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Amendment #1 (Taylor G) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 49, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-06** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-12** Public Law 25
- **2017-04-12** 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/87cf0562-aa69-4281-a4db-a44c3ca7be3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).