---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1053"
citation: "Indiana HB 1053 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SHELBY COUNTY", "MAGISTRATE COURTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Taylor", "James Smith", "Michael Crider", "Sean Eberhart"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb91c177-d55f-4bcb-9446-7528bcdddc06"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1053"
source_hash: "82de5973efa56b0eb47abe82e6ad223c49c7ebcf1848292f51ba7750e3bd7e1b"
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 1053 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.06.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.02.comh)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.05.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.04.coms)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.03.comh)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1053/versions/hb1053.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1053 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1053 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- James Smith — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Stemler — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Steuerwald and DeLaney
- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Eberhart
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Pryor added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-16** Representative Stemler added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 155: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider, Smith J and Taylor G
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 368: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 446: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 129
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb91c177-d55f-4bcb-9446-7528bcdddc06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).