republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1071.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning criminal law and procedure.	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning criminal law and procedure.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1071	Indiana HB 1071 (2017)	bill	WEAPONS STUDY COMMITTEES	enacted	Aaron Freeman Mark Messmer Sean Eberhart	4	34	2	2017-01-04	2017-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/0b8119d5-8402-43e3-9fb8-a749346bc7d5	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1071	e5cfe66971aa1093532900447758f0674d856ba4b778fcaee8c1606fb335bbfb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1071 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT 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 1071 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — 72–26 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1071 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 42–5 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
• Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
• James Buck — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Peggy Mayfield — coauthor (person)
• Terry Goodin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-04 Coauthored by Representatives Kirchhofer, Mayfield and Goodin
• 2017-01-04 Authored by Representative Eberhart
• 2017-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-14 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Amendment #3 (Austin) failed; Roll Call 160: yeas 28, nays 68 amendment-failure
• 2017-02-20 Amendment #8 (Nisly) ruled out of order amendment-failure
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-21 Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer and Freeman
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 168: yeas 72, nays 26 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-03 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-04 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 397: yeas 42, nays 5 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-05 Senator Buck added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-06 Motion to dissent filed
• 2017-04-06 House dissented from Senate amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-06 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-10 Senate advisors appointed: Freeman, Lanane and Crider
• 2017-04-10 Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Randolph Lonnie M
• 2017-04-10 House advisors appointed: Smaltz, Judy, Lucas and Lawson L
• 2017-04-10 House conferees appointed: Eberhart and Goodin
• 2017-04-20 Senator Tomes added as conferee
• 2017-04-20 Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
• 2017-04-20 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2017-04-20 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 517: yeas 74, nays 26
• 2017-04-21 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 506: yeas 38, nays 12
• 2017-04-24 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-27 Public Law 221
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0b8119d5-8402-43e3-9fb8-a749346bc7d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).