---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 172"
citation: "Indiana SB 172 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES generally", "SALES AND USE TAXES", "REVENUE", "DEPARTMENT OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Robert Cherry", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db6b41e6-3dd6-43d7-9d33-34c04dc6a303"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/172"
source_hash: "62daaf8afffbd0297c55ee96aefc6df1b93e5492ccfe5b3b68a3f273588a7a5f"
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 172 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 172 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 172 - Cherry - 3rd Reading — **96–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Robert Cherry — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- William Friend — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2017-01-17** Senator Zakas added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Cherry
- **2017-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Friend and Miller
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 96, nays 1 `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 53
- **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/db6b41e6-3dd6-43d7-9d33-34c04dc6a303`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).