---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1277"
citation: "Indiana HB 1277 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSUMER CREDIT AND PROTECTION (including UCCC)", "REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS", "BROKERS", "AND SALESPERSONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Steve Bartels"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18c95205-2e6c-4b10-9635-25daf939bc7b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1277"
source_hash: "aa7d54f6b3953308d6d7ea42e26c734ede41470ad86cd21f4d4f5a85849812bc"
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 1277 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1277/versions/hb1277.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1277/versions/hb1277.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1277/versions/hb1277.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1277/versions/hb1277.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1277 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1277 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **44–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Coauthored by Representative Miller D
- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Bartels
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Kruse
- **2018-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 104: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Representative Brown, C. added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 296: yeas 44, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-08** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2018-03-12** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 145
- **2018-03-19** 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/18c95205-2e6c-4b10-9635-25daf939bc7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).