Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/in/2026/sb-259.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Partnership composite returns."
+description: "Removes penalty provisions that apply if a pass through entity fails to include in a composite return nonresident partners, nonresident shareholders, or nonresident beneficiaries that do not have distributive share income of greater than $0. Makes conforming changes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 259"
+citation: "Indiana SB 259 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; Generally", "TAXES; Estate and Inheritance Taxes"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Craig Snow", "Scott Baldwin", "Travis Holdman"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-03-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/142074e8-90e1-4f13-bfcd-ad27f4f5a9ff"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0259"
+source_hash: "b8ec5d3c97349a92b22b01fee2b94c6461383727458e9a11bf4157773249c6f9"
+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 259 (2026) — Partnership composite returns.
+
+Removes penalty provisions that apply if a pass through entity fails to include in a composite return nonresident partners, nonresident shareholders, or nonresident beneficiaries that do not have distributive share income of greater than $0. Makes conforming changes.
+
+## 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/SB0259/SB0259.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0259/SB0259.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0259/SB0259.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0259/SB0259.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 259 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 259 - Snow - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Craig Snow — primary (person)
+- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
+- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senator Baldwin
+- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-15** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-26** House sponsor: Representative Snow
+- **2026-01-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 83: yeas 44, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-26** Senator Holdman added as second author
+- **2026-01-27** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-24** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-25** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-03-03** Public Law 48 `became-law`
+- **2026-03-03** 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/142074e8-90e1-4f13-bfcd-ad27f4f5a9ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+