---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1140"
citation: "Indiana HB 1140 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "COUNTY COURTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Miller", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/442de15d-b465-4652-80d3-18e98026d5dd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1140"
source_hash: "480428fb246d0d96bd6278fcff0a644ba3e9a665a8dbabc306969d3a62857740"
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 1140 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1140/versions/hb1140.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1140/versions/hb1140.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1140/versions/hb1140.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1140/versions/hb1140.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1140/versions/hb1140.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1140 - Miller - 3rd Reading — **88–7** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1140 - Head - 3rd Reading — **45–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Representative Miller D
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 88, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Head
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Senators Randolph and Zakas added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-22** Amendment #2 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 229: yeas 45, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 329: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 75
- **2018-03-14** 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/442de15d-b465-4652-80d3-18e98026d5dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).