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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 294"
+citation: "Indiana SB 294 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Jeff Raatz", "Susan Glick"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2f7c76f-6cc3-4dea-9543-727a88f87dd9"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/294"
+source_hash: "6072ba9f92fa7c1ab01110caf6214e26632b3c57d731fe6bff03d9e98e005143"
+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 294 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.04.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.06.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.05.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.03.coms)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 294 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 294 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **44–4** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Don Lehe — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Susan Glick — primary (person)
+- Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
+- Randy Lyness — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Leising
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 155: yeas 44, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
+- **2017-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Lyness
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Glick added as second author
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Raatz added as third author
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Perfect added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-22** 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 59
+- **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/e2f7c76f-6cc3-4dea-9543-727a88f87dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+