---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1031"
citation: "Indiana HB 1031 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANA CODE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Randall Head", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85798bab-c0ab-4378-a2b4-fc5002ae4ee5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1031"
source_hash: "7974074f322061a831b60d2505bcdcda52ec6a15c6d122228e7e105403fb37ad"
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 1031 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning general provisions.

## 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/hb1031/versions/hb1031.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1031 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1031 - Head - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Washburne
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Representative DeLaney added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 11: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senate sponsor: Senator Head
- **2018-01-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 225: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 91, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2018-03-13** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 136
- **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/85798bab-c0ab-4378-a2b4-fc5002ae4ee5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).