---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1273"
citation: "Indiana HB 1273 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Health Care Costs; Health Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Baird", "Michael Crider", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3835a274-2cd2-456d-968a-04c2bb1c8e70"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1273"
source_hash: "c2aa80aeb52a966acca83c0597f37a92253d40b161e1287205bf5061cd86d341"
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 1273 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1273/versions/hb1273.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1273/versions/hb1273.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1273/versions/hb1273.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1273/versions/hb1273.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1273/versions/hb1273.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1273 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1273 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Baird — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Robert Heaton — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Grooms — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Baird
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Representative Heaton added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Representative Harris added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Representative Schaibley added as coauthor
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Carbaugh) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-27** Representatives Austin and Carbaugh added as coauthors
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider and Bray
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 241: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Grooms added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 370: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 455: yeas 92, 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 147
- **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/3835a274-2cd2-456d-968a-04c2bb1c8e70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).