---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1344"
citation: "Indiana HB 1344 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EAST CHICAGO", "SOIL SCIENTISTS", "LEAD TESTING AND ABATEMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earl Harris", "Ed Charbonneau", "Lonnie Randolph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3f2068d-e243-4c76-9865-40f53ec9ed9c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1344"
source_hash: "0f2654fc3b7fa722d820f54b8f2a01da0f33d723c59bbca0b5d92e936fdc7012"
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 1344 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental 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/hb1344/versions/hb1344.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1344/versions/hb1344.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1344/versions/hb1344.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1344/versions/hb1344.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1344 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1344 - Harris - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Earl Harris — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Harris
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Representatives Aylesworth and Cook added as coauthors
- **2017-01-31** Representative Hamilton added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 133: yeas 89, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Niemeyer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 371: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 476: 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 88
- **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/d3f2068d-e243-4c76-9865-40f53ec9ed9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).