---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Indiana HB 1065 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "COURTS generally", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36fdd677-56fd-43db-87d6-44a629291b93"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1065"
source_hash: "7b24ef5d6d2a4c63d802ed3352d843df6d2125f6e6fc3979124eb556bab38391"
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 1065 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## 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/hb1065/versions/hb1065.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1065/versions/hb1065.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1065 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1065 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-18** Representative Pierce added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-24** Senate sponsor: Senator Young M
- **2017-01-25** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 326: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-31** 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 26
- **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/36fdd677-56fd-43db-87d6-44a629291b93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).