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---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1654"
citation: "Indiana HB 1654 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Ziemke", "James Merritt", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f01b8270-8eb3-4bac-8691-4c1cf70d31de"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1654"
source_hash: "bebff1eb0760fd22e01a3a9851df4d93150a8ae8131b5d4be17483a0a605cbe8"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1654/versions/hb1654.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1654/versions/hb1654.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1654/versions/hb1654.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1654/versions/hb1654.01.intr)
## Votes
- HB 1654 - Ziemke - 3rd Reading — **960** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1654 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **490** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f01b8270-8eb3-4bac-8691-4c1cf70d31de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).