---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1268"
citation: "Indiana HB 1268 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Traffic Violations and Penalties", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Taylor", "Randall Head", "Robin Shackleford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a21de331-34a4-494a-a0ed-092de5c1b159"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1268"
source_hash: "a44083ce2728e56153725230208fdfa9d4498b81dfef555130bb9821c4010a12"
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 1268 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/hb1268/versions/hb1268.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1268/versions/hb1268.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1268/versions/hb1268.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1268/versions/hb1268.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1268 - Shackleford - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1268 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Robin Shackleford — primary (person)
- Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Shackleford
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Representative Young J added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Representatives Pryor and Taylor J added as coauthors
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 175: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Head and Taylor G
- **2017-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 49, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **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 18
- **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/a21de331-34a4-494a-a0ed-092de5c1b159`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).