---
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 1245"
citation: "Indiana HB 1245 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Support", "Custody", "and Visitation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Michael Karickhoff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37432a7f-7127-4301-8e90-33ac641d306b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1245"
source_hash: "512db2ad72cd781942ae6bdf3693e2e0ed0faba813dffd5a87d54e6c49d6a640"
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 1245 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1245/versions/hb1245.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1245/versions/hb1245.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1245/versions/hb1245.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1245/versions/hb1245.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1245 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1245 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Karickhoff
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** Representatives DeLaney, Young J, Pierce added as coauthors
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 220: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Senators Randolph and Freeman added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 271: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Freeman removed as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 16
- **2017-03-29** 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/37432a7f-7127-4301-8e90-33ac641d306b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).