---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1642"
citation: "Indiana HB 1642 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "Disease Control", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Taylor", "Mark Stoops", "Vanessa Summers", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-24"
last_action: "2017-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c469c54c-3094-49ef-9829-96f985c71bf9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1642"
source_hash: "0a00c01abf86c5be6a8f9bd015688219376150c8e374d9276feb6d013df45f52"
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 1642 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning health.

## 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/hb1642/versions/hb1642.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1642/versions/hb1642.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1642/versions/hb1642.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1642/versions/hb1642.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1642 - Summers - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1642 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **42–6** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Mark Stoops — primary (person)
- Vanessa Summers — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-24** Coauthored by Representative Clere
- **2017-01-24** Authored by Representative Summers
- **2017-01-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Representatives Kirchhofer and Macer added as coauthors
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 83: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Becker, Stoops and Taylor G
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **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 385: yeas 42, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-06** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-11** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-12** Public Law 34
- **2017-04-12** 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/c469c54c-3094-49ef-9829-96f985c71bf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).