Because Indiana’s official language statute does not specify any actions to be taken, a constitutional amendment, with far more specific provisions, has been proposed (below). Indiana was one of the first states to make English its official language, doing so in 1984. The text of the statute was simply this:

Official English Law of Indiana

INDIANA STATUTES
Section 1-2-10-1 – State Language (1984)
The English language is adopted as the official language of the state of Indiana.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN INDIANA

5,295,736	English
362,082	All languages other than English combined
185,576	Spanish or Spanish Creole
44,142	German
18,065	French (incl. Patois, Cajun)
9,912	Chinese
7,831	Polish
5,843	Serbo-Croatian
5,339	Japanese
5,338	Arabic
5,032	Korean
4,798	Italian
4,746	Vietnamese
4,233	Greek
4,016	Tagalog
3,864	African languages
3,736	Russian
2,865	Hindi
2,219	Gujarathi
1,744	Hungarian
1,682	Portuguese or Portuguese Creole
1,629	Urdu
1,252	Persian
1,134	Scandinavian languages
993	Laotian
884	Other Native North American languages
874	Hebrew
840	Thai
662	Mon-Khmer, Cambodian
297	French Creole
296	Yiddish
217	Armenian
84	Navajo
72	Miao, Hmong