republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/hb-1654.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	HB 1654	Indiana HB 1654 (2017)	bill	DRUGS Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS Existing Agencies	enacted	Cindy Ziemke James Merritt Michael Crider	4	23	2	2017-01-23	2017-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/f01b8270-8eb3-4bac-8691-4c1cf70d31de	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1654	bebff1eb0760fd22e01a3a9851df4d93150a8ae8131b5d4be17483a0a605cbe8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1654 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.

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 1654 - Ziemke - 3rd Reading — 96–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1654 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Cindy Ziemke — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
• Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
• Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedures reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Reassigned to Committee on Public Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Representative Ziemke added as author
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-20 Representative Brown, C. added as coauthor
• 2017-02-21 Senate sponsor: Senator Merritt
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 96, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the Senate
• 2017-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-27 Senator Breaux added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-27 Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-27 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-28 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 333: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-30 Senator Crider added as second sponsor
• 2017-03-31 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2017-04-06 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-26 Public Law 205
• 2017-04-26 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f01b8270-8eb3-4bac-8691-4c1cf70d31de. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).