republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-59.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 59	Indiana SB 59 (2017)	bill	LICENSES AND LICENSING HUMAN SERVICES Regulation and Licensing of Professionals	enacted	David Frizzell James Merritt Randall Head	7	39	2	2017-01-03	2017-04-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/59	f5c0184aea98f3a75270f45eff273bf358498a553808d2715d4ce139b582aaaf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 59 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning professions and occupations.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 59 - Head - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 59 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• David Frizzell — primary (person)
• James Merritt — primary (person)
• Randall Head — primary (person)
• Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
• Terri Jo Austin — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-03 Authored by Senator Head
• 2017-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-01-30 Senator Merritt added as second author
• 2017-02-02 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-02 Placed back on second reading reading-2
• 2017-02-07 Senator Messmer added as coauthor
• 2017-02-07 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2017-02-14 Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-02-14 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-16 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-16 House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
• 2017-02-16 Senator Buck added as coauthor
• 2017-02-16 Senator Holdman added as coauthor
• 2017-02-17 Referred to the House
• 2017-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-27 Representative Austin added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-28 Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-30 Amendment #1 (Frizzell) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-03-30 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-03 Representative Porter added as cosponsor
• 2017-04-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 346: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-04 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-05 Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Zay and Stoops
• 2017-04-05 Senate conferees appointed: Head and Randolph Lonnie M
• 2017-04-05 Motion to dissent filed
• 2017-04-05 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-06 House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Lyness, Klinker and Taylor J
• 2017-04-06 House conferees appointed: Frizzell and Austin
• 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 527: yeas 97, nays 0
• 2017-04-21 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 500: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-28 Public Law 225
• 2017-04-28 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6621626c-aed4-47da-adf8-386b0426445a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).