---
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 1439"
citation: "Indiana HB 1439 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Ed Charbonneau", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43fcb99e-e462-48a9-aa40-c207e99fae8a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1439"
source_hash: "e51e35f5e1bd48d829136b551f34cc7009fa3612aeb09b9998b9f9c10bd72dcd"
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 1439 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1439/versions/hb1439.05.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1439/versions/hb1439.04.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1439/versions/hb1439.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1439/versions/hb1439.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1439/versions/hb1439.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1439 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1439 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Representative Zent added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Charbonneau
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** Representative Shackleford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Mishler added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Stoops) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 377: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 436: yeas 96, 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 152
- **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/43fcb99e-e462-48a9-aa40-c207e99fae8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).