---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1308"
citation: "Indiana HB 1308 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "James Tomes", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cae6ae10-c568-4e3f-a75c-5460fdcdb592"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1308"
source_hash: "2a82e3975d0119668e19db8a8db723b30da5726d7a8908cabfa67d8eade67016"
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 1308 (2017) — 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/2017/bills/hb1308/versions/hb1308.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1308/versions/hb1308.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1308/versions/hb1308.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1308/versions/hb1308.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1308 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1308 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Charles Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Zent
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Representative Taylor J added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Representatives Bacon and Moseley added as coauthors
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Tomes added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-11** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 78
- **2017-04-13** 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/cae6ae10-c568-4e3f-a75c-5460fdcdb592`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).