---
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 1274"
citation: "Indiana HB 1274 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH", "HEALTH generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Zakas", "Rodric Bray", "Vanessa Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37ac943d-951f-4856-86e1-e9d9bc869db5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1274"
source_hash: "5246386026c504d909b23acbacb81c2b75db35c678d823fc9fdf8d9d2b3a5bc8"
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 1274 (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/hb1274/versions/hb1274.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1274/versions/hb1274.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1274/versions/hb1274.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1274/versions/hb1274.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1274 - Summers - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1274 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Vanessa Summers — primary (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representative Clere
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Summers
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Representatives Bauer and Steuerwald added as coauthors
- **2017-02-06** Senate sponsor: Senator Bray
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 57: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 307: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Zakas added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-12** Concurrence withdrawn; House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Steuerwald, McNamara and Bauer
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Clere and Summers
- **2017-04-13** Senate conferees appointed: Bray and Taylor G
- **2017-04-13** Senate advisors appointed: Zakas, Randolph Lonnie M and Ruckelshaus
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 511: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 498: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 190
- **2017-04-26** 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/37ac943d-951f-4856-86e1-e9d9bc869db5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).