---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1287"
citation: "Indiana HB 1287 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES", "AGED PERSONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jean Breaux", "Jean Leising", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3776d2a0-a941-4dfa-b66e-9036c8fd625b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1287"
source_hash: "b3acfb50f8e6b4fb40f29d02e61abc52f557d31f980a87a59a835343d751bc73"
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 1287 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1287/versions/hb1287.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1287 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1287 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **28–20** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- B Patrick Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Clyde Kersey — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lloyd Arnold — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- Milo Smith — coauthor (person)
- Randy Lyness — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)
- Sharon Negele — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Steven Davisson — coauthor (person)
- Sue Errington — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
- Thomas Saunders — coauthor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Frizzell, Summers and Negele
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Clere
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-07** Representatives Arnold, Cook, DeVon, Hamm, Klinker, Mahan, Olthoff, Smith, M., Taylor J, Wright, Ziemke, Austin, Bacon, Bartlett, Bauer, Borders, Brown, C., Burton, Davisson, Errington, Harris, Kersey, Lawson, Lyness , Porter, Saunders, Schaibley, Siegrist added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Leising and Breaux
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 69: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 28, nays 20 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-13** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Clere and Wright
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Frizzell, Ziemke, Kersey and Summers
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Becker and Breaux
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Leising, Lanane and Walker
- **2017-04-13** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** House reconsidered and concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 484: yeas 81, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 87
- **2017-04-20** 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/3776d2a0-a941-4dfa-b66e-9036c8fd625b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).