republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-253.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety.	A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 253	Indiana SB 253 (2017)	bill	LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT State Department and Agencies LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Wages Arbitration and Benefits LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT Worker's Compensation LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY STUDY COMMITTEES	enacted	David Ober Karen Tallian Philip Boots Vaneta Becker	4	23	2	2017-01-09	2017-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/253	c49ea70641d93f48812c1ca18f16b50da92045ac6ba09dd4e6eae5a699725d03	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 253 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 253 - Ober - 3rd Reading — 93–2 (pass) · legislature
• SB 253 - Tallian - 3rd Reading — 35–14 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• David Ober — primary (person)
• Karen Tallian — primary (person)
• Philip Boots — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
• Linda Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Authored by Senator Tallian
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-02 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-06 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2017-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 35, nays 14 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-13 House sponsor: Representative Ober
• 2017-02-13 Cosponsor: Representative Lawson
• 2017-02-13 Senator Becker added as second author
• 2017-02-13 Senator Boots added as third author
• 2017-02-15 Referred to the House
• 2017-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-16 Representative Porter added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 93, nays 2 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-20 Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-21 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2017-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-12 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-13 Public Law 56
• 2017-04-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).