---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1218"
citation: "Indiana HB 1218 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Community Programs", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Messmer", "Randall Head", "Rodric Bray", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ea80723-263d-4c76-89b9-06e287b8f7f0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1218"
source_hash: "ae4829fde0bc31012bdf494dd632148595bd09c5395d2190a2a357332d157ce7"
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 1218 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

## 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/2017/bills/hb1218/versions/hb1218.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1218/versions/hb1218.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1218/versions/hb1218.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1218/versions/hb1218.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1218/versions/hb1218.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1218 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1218 - Head - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative McNamara
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Representative Steuerwald added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Head and Bray
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Messmer added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-20** Senator Eckerty added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Lanane added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Sandlin added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 398: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 475: yeas 77, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 86
- **2017-04-20** 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/0ea80723-263d-4c76-89b9-06e287b8f7f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).