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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning labor and safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 253"
citation: "Indiana SB 253 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Karen Tallian", "Philip Boots", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/253"
source_hash: "c49ea70641d93f48812c1ca18f16b50da92045ac6ba09dd4e6eae5a699725d03"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0253/versions/sb0253.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 253 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **932** (pass) · legislature
- SB 253 - Tallian - 3rd Reading — **3514** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/877551db-8fc9-42cf-af34-bf8abc58ba2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).