republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1278.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1278	Indiana HB 1278 (2017)	bill	HEALTH Disease Control	enacted	Jean Leising Sharon Negele Vaneta Becker	4	26	2	2017-01-10	2017-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/c788ca90-d1d1-4f15-8ae8-33455fecdbf2	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1278	751dd360c357b28edc1c2da1ca83b537201214239171f701c5a909dc9177d89b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1278 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

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 1278 - Negele - 3rd Reading — 100–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1278 - Leising - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Jean Leising — primary (person)
• Sharon Negele — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
• Carey Hamilton — coauthor (person)
• Cherrish Pryor — coauthor (person)
• Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
• Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
• Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
• Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
• Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
• Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
• Harold Slager — coauthor (person)
• Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
• Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• John Ruckelshaus — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
• Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
• Karlee Macer — coauthor (person)
• Kathy Richardson — coauthor (person)
• Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
• Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
• Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
• Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
• Sue Errington — coauthor (person)
• Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
• Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
• Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)
• Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)
• Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Authored by Representative Negele
• 2017-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-26 Representatives Sullivan, Kirchhofer, Summers added as coauthors
• 2017-01-30 Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
• 2017-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 100, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-01-30 Rule 105.1 suspended
• 2017-01-30 Representative Smaltz added as coauthor
• 2017-01-31 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-14 Rule 105.1 suspended
• 2017-02-14 Representatives Austin, Errington, Hamilton, Klinker, Lawson, Macer, McNamara, Olthoff, Pryor, Candelaria Reardon, Richardson, Schaibley, Siegrist, Wright, Ziemke, Zent, Clere, Brown, T., Slager added as coauthors
• 2017-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-21 Senator Ruckelshaus added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-13 Senator Becker added as second sponsor
• 2017-03-13 Senators Breaux, Brown L, Glick, Houchin, Tallian added as cosponsors
• 2017-03-16 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-21 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-23 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2017-03-27 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-03-28 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-07 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-10 Public Law 23
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c788ca90-d1d1-4f15-8ae8-33455fecdbf2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).