---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1470"
citation: "Indiana HB 1470 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "David Ober", "John Ruckelshaus"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fca04b0c-7e70-425a-b915-3ef775ecdb22"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1470"
source_hash: "247dd23e93a41219dfba39279c82b652a6eb8a0d6bba9b4dfb46fbe6e5b20605"
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 1470 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## 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/hb1470/versions/hb1470.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1470/versions/hb1470.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1470/versions/hb1470.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1470/versions/hb1470.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1470/versions/hb1470.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1470/versions/hb1470.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1470 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1470 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **34–14** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- David Ober — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Robert Cherry — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
- Todd Huston — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Ober
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Representative Mahan added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Representatives McNamara and Shackleford added as coauthors
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Hershman and Ruckelshaus
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 206: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-02-23** Representatives Engleman, Pressel, Miller, Carbaugh, Cherry, Young J, Huston added as coauthors
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; Division of the Senate: yeas 31, nays 14 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 422: yeas 34, nays 14 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Senator Stoops removed as cosponsor
- **2017-04-06** 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`
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Huston, Lucas and Moed
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Ober and Shackleford
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Ruckelshaus, Stoops and Eckerty
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-21** Senator Merritt added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 536: yeas 37, nays 13
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 555: yeas 93, nays 2
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 269
- **2017-05-02** 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/fca04b0c-7e70-425a-b915-3ef775ecdb22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).