---
type: "Bill"
title: "Awareness of human trafficking."
description: "Requires safety rest areas, gas stations, and welcome centers to display human trafficking awareness information, and permits massage establishments to display human trafficking awareness information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1416"
citation: "Indiana HB 1416 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Human Trafficking", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Buildings", "Facilities", "and Properties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dan Dernulc", "Greg Taylor", "John Bartlett"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58c2d069-c1e5-4727-a88a-639f54a7f9ec"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1416"
source_hash: "2b5bded979fe36c55d5ae4c45bf564093b53269594ac0be91fb3d4f13322ef12"
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 1416 (2025) — Awareness of human trafficking.

Requires safety rest areas, gas stations, and welcome centers to display human trafficking awareness information, and permits massage establishments to display human trafficking awareness information.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.05.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.03.ENGH.pdf)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.06.ENRS.pdf)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.02.COMH.pdf)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.04.COMS.pdf)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1416/HB1416.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1416 - Dernulc - 3rd Reading — **44–5** (pass) · upper
- HB 1416 - Dernulc — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- HB 1416 - Bartlett - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1416 - Bartlett — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dan Dernulc — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- John Bartlett — primary (person)
- Brett Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Cyndi Carrasco — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Bartlett
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Representatives McNamara and Bauer added as coauthors
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Amendment #1 (Olthoff) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Senate sponsors: Senators Dernulc and Taylor G
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 140: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-27** Senators Glick, Carrasco, Clark, Pol, Brown L added as cosponsors
- **2025-03-31** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment #8 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment #3 (Bohacek) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment #9 (Bohacek) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 439: yeas 44, nays 5 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-17** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-21** House conferees appointed: McNamara and Bartlett
- **2025-04-21** House advisors appointed: Olthoff, Bauer and Gore
- **2025-04-21** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-21** Concurrence withdrawn; House dissented from Senate amendments `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-22** Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Dernulc
- **2025-04-22** Senate conferees appointed: Bohacek and Pol
- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 516: yeas 46, nays 4
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 228 `became-law`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 545: yeas 91, nays 0

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58c2d069-c1e5-4727-a88a-639f54a7f9ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).