Indiana House Bill 1243 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: Passed on April 26 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-26 - Public Law 189
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Deregulation of hair braiding. Exempts the act of hair braiding from regulation concerning beauty culture. Specifies techniques and practices that constitute "natural hair braiding". Excludes use of dyes, reactive chemicals, joining agents, and other preparations from the definition of "natural hair braiding". Excludes the act of hair braiding from the definitions for "barbering" and "cosmetology". Provides that the term "esthetician" excludes a person who engages in natural hair braiding. Defines "mechanical devices" as clips, combs, crochet hooks, hair pins, rollers, scissors, blunt-tipped needles, thread, and hair binders.

Deregulation of hair braiding. Exempts the act of hair braiding from regulation concerning beauty culture. Specifies techniques and practices that constitute "natural hair braiding". Excludes use of dyes, reactive chemicals, joining agents, and other preparations from the definition of "natural hair braiding". Excludes the act of hair braiding from the definitions for "barbering" and "cosmetology". Provides that the term "esthetician" excludes a person who engages in natural hair braiding. Defines "mechanical devices" as clips, combs, crochet hooks, hair pins, rollers, scissors, blunt-tipped needles, thread, and hair binders.

Rep. Timothy Wesco [R]	Rep. Heath VanNatter [R]	Rep. Vanessa Summers [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]
Sen. Andy Zay [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]

2017-04-21 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 61 N: 37 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-04-21 - Senate - Senate - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 42 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-04-06 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 42 N: 5 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-03-30 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 82 N: 11 NV: 1 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2017-02-07 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-26	House	Public Law 189
2017-04-26	House	Signed by the Governor
2017-04-24	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2017-04-21	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2017-04-21	House	Signed by the Speaker
2017-04-21	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 515: yeas 42, nays 7
2017-04-21	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 534: yeas 61, nays 37
2017-04-21	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2017-04-21	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2017-04-20	Senate	Senator Zay added as conferee
2017-04-20	Senate	Senator Breaux removed as conferee
2017-04-20	Senate	Senator Breaux added as conferee
2017-04-20	Senate	Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
2017-04-20	House	Representative VanNatter added as conferee
2017-04-20	House	Representative VanNatter removed as advisor
2017-04-20	House	Representative Pryor removed as conferee
2017-04-11	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Ruckelshaus and Taylor G
2017-04-11	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Randolph Lonnie M
2017-04-11	House	House advisors appointed: VanNatter, Speedy and Summers
2017-04-11	House	House conferees appointed: Wesco and Pryor
2017-04-10	House	House dissented from Senate amendments
2017-04-10	House	Motion to dissent filed
2017-04-10	House	Representative Pryor removed as coauthor
2017-04-06	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2017-04-06	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 414: yeas 42, nays 5
2017-04-05	Senate	Senator Zay added as second sponsor
2017-04-05	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-04-03	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-03-14	Senate	Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
2017-02-20	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology
2017-02-14	House	Referred to the Senate
2017-02-13	House	Representatives VanNatter and Summers added as coauthors
2017-02-13	House	Representative Pryor added as coauthor
2017-02-13	House	Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
2017-02-13	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 82, nays 11
2017-02-09	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-02-07	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2017-01-10	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
2017-01-10	House	Authored by Representative Wesco

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1243/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/9/7/e/097e6c7b/HB1243.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/0/1/8/b018dc78/HB1243.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/c/a/8/1ca834ed/HB1243.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/c/b/a/ccbacdf0/HB1243.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/6/3/5/2635e9b4/HB1243.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/7/4/0/9740ba3c/HB1243.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/5/b/e/15be074c/HB1243.04.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/6/e/0/96e0204c/HB1243.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/9/a/0/19a0cbde/HB1243.102.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/2/c/4/f2c47184/HB1243.02.COMH.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/1/9/3/6193083b/HB1243.414.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/2/b/5/62b52790/HB1243.515.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/d/f/7/fdf7c59f/HB1243.534.pdf