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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tip pooling."
+description: "Specifically authorizes the use of tip pooling arrangements under certain circumstances."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 245"
+citation: "Indiana SB 245 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; Generally", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-02-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b07646ee-3bd9-4f24-a3ca-aa59937f5143"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0245"
+source_hash: "12a8b0275cffd0462ad6569225f9a57c63c371919e59c4c2d99e6124ee993170"
+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 245 (2026) — Tip pooling.
+
+Specifically authorizes the use of tip pooling arrangements under certain circumstances.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0245/SB0245.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0245/SB0245.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0245/SB0245.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0245/SB0245.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 245 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **44–1** (pass) · upper
+- SB 245 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Tony Isa — cosponsor (person)
+- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senators Freeman, Rogers
+- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-22** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
+- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 60: yeas 44, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-17** Representative Garcia Wilburn added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-17** Representative Isa added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-24** Public Law 15 `became-law`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b07646ee-3bd9-4f24-a3ca-aa59937f5143`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+