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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Licensure of accountants."
+description: "Revises the education and experience requirements for licensure as a certified public accountant. Repeals language allowing various substitutions for licensure requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1143"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1143 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Finance Industry"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers", "Stacey Donato"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e27e253-a91d-4593-81bb-97554e5e13bb"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1143"
+source_hash: "0984eb499cbeb359b559b385a1f6ed12e16b5c6a28b58d4d92d448640b26c66e"
+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 1143 (2025) — Licensure of accountants.
+
+Revises the education and experience requirements for licensure as a certified public accountant. Repeals language allowing various substitutions for licensure requirements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1143 - VanNatter — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1143 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1143 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
+- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative VanNatter
+- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Gore
+- **2025-01-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
+- **2025-01-29** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Buchanan added as third sponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Donato added as second sponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 362: yeas 90, nays 0
+- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-16** Public Law 85 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e27e253-a91d-4593-81bb-97554e5e13bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+