---
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 1173"
citation: "Indiana HB 1173 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS", "VICTIMS OF CRIME"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jim Pressel", "Mike Bohacek"]
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/fbe0633f-f6f5-405a-a8be-910df94448e3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1173"
source_hash: "67d9429eaedc52297d0f3fd168fed3359a5e9c0d2af777fa5669ae7ef2ad6687"
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 1173 (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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1173/versions/hb1173.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1173/versions/hb1173.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1173/versions/hb1173.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1173/versions/hb1173.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1173/versions/hb1173.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1173 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1173 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jim Pressel — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Kathy Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Representative Pressel
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Richardson added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Representative Hatfield added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Representative McNamara added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Amendment #1 (Pressel) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Bohacek
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 315: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House without amendments
- **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 78
- **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/fbe0633f-f6f5-405a-a8be-910df94448e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).