---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1171"
citation: "Indiana HB 1171 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Taylor", "Kevin Mahan", "Philip Boots", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/280645cb-a49b-4bea-987c-b30cd0bc4015"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1171"
source_hash: "6716a9286fd5760c919f10a1c2b544af4a876d2671cf232f03ee999f9e8e7dc0"
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 1171 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

## 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/hb1171/versions/hb1171.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1171/versions/hb1171.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1171/versions/hb1171.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1171/versions/hb1171.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1171 - Mahan - 3rd Reading — **91–4** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1171 - Boots - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Kevin Mahan — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Coauthored by Representatives Frye R, Steuerwald and Lawson L
- **2017-01-09** Authored by Representative Mahan
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsors: Senators Boots, Holdman and Taylor G
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 91, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** 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 431: yeas 96, 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 140
- **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/280645cb-a49b-4bea-987c-b30cd0bc4015`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).