republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1019.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1019	Indiana HB 1019 (2017)	bill	CRIMES AND OFFENSES Controlled Substances	enacted	James Merritt Jeff Ellington Randall Head	4	22	2	2017-01-04	2017-03-29	openstates	ocd-bill/8908e7d4-b594-42c1-a211-193fb34aaf34	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1019	2e1393f7ab13152ae01ca0a41f6dfb43db09701e22740b9dabff5391a03e2844	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1019 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1019 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1019 - Ellington - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Jeff Ellington — primary (person)
• Randall Head — primary (person)
• Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald Grooms — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
• Sharon Negele — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-04 Authored by Representative Ellington
• 2017-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Representative Negele added as coauthor
• 2017-01-31 Representatives Klinker and Hatfield added as coauthors
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-21 Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt and Head
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 90, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-13 Senator Grooms added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 266: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-20 Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-20 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-21 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-03-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-03-21 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2017-03-27 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-03-29 Public Law 8
• 2017-03-29 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8908e7d4-b594-42c1-a211-193fb34aaf34. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).