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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1019"
citation: "Indiana HB 1019 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Controlled Substances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Merritt", "Jeff Ellington", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8908e7d4-b594-42c1-a211-193fb34aaf34"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1019"
source_hash: "2e1393f7ab13152ae01ca0a41f6dfb43db09701e22740b9dabff5391a03e2844"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1019/versions/hb1019.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1019/versions/hb1019.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1019/versions/hb1019.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1019/versions/hb1019.01.intr)
## Votes
- HB 1019 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **500** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1019 - Ellington - 3rd Reading — **900** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8908e7d4-b594-42c1-a211-193fb34aaf34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).