---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1540"
citation: "Indiana HB 1540 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Davisson", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22fed2df-64c0-4a7f-bc1b-9b189dfa5aff"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1540"
source_hash: "53dc630492b68521d8467b85718c9392e03b181a6df78b4019ad146b9452baa1"
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 1540 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

## 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/hb1540/versions/hb1540.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1540/versions/hb1540.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1540/versions/hb1540.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1540/versions/hb1540.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1540/versions/hb1540.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1540 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **45–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1540 - Davisson - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Davisson
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Representatives Ober, Austin, Shackleford added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Grooms, Charbonneau and Glick
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #4 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 318: yeas 45, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** 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: Ziemke, Zent and Austin
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Davisson and Shackleford
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Grooms and Lanane
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau, Breaux and Crane
- **2017-04-20** Representative Ober added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Representative Shackleford removed as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Charbonneau added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Lanane removed as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Senator Charbonneau removed as advisor
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 525: yeas 87, nays 11
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 513: yeas 37, nays 12
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 202
- **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/22fed2df-64c0-4a7f-bc1b-9b189dfa5aff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).