---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1154"
citation: "Indiana HB 1154 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Unemployment Compensation", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "John Ruckelshaus", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26fd114d-7cf4-4d84-8159-ebef933a08fe"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1154"
source_hash: "2eb06f1e2ea439b0784570e51d4e34f5fa85eebe61d8278f00538c978114113b"
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 1154 (2017) — 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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1154/versions/hb1154.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1154/versions/hb1154.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1154/versions/hb1154.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1154/versions/hb1154.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1154 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1154 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Charles Moseley — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Representative Leonard
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Representative Ober added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-31** Representative Moseley added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsor: Senator Boots
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 306: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-28** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Boots and Niezgodski
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Eckerty and Tallian
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Leonard and Taylor J
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Lyness, Ober and Moseley
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 507: yeas 93, nays 1
- **2017-04-20** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 492: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 177
- **2017-04-25** 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/26fd114d-7cf4-4d84-8159-ebef933a08fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).