---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1250"
citation: "Indiana HB 1250 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WEAPONS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Ronald Grooms", "Terry Goodin"]
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/c95904b6-1e78-41ba-a49d-5b306abf852b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1250"
source_hash: "6c51d24dc01b42fd3e34937612f32faf8084dd32bd62345c0796f7a7e183aa7f"
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 1250 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

## 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/hb1250/versions/hb1250.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1250 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1250 - Goodin - 3rd Reading — **90–7** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Terry Goodin — primary (person)
- Charles Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
- Sean Eberhart — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Goodin
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Representatives Eberhart and Moseley added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Representative Lehman added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Grooms
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 150: yeas 90, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 261: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-15** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 17
- **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/c95904b6-1e78-41ba-a49d-5b306abf852b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).