---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning animals."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 293"
citation: "Indiana SB 293 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (other than Livestock)", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "VETERINARIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dd36ac5-f2ae-4a44-80de-3ebc28e216ce"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/293"
source_hash: "0283d835aade11b66e6e564fbe68204f37173c2cfd1dc58808f7578a968f98fc"
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 293 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning animals.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0293/versions/sb0293.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0293/versions/sb0293.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0293/versions/sb0293.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0293/versions/sb0293.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0293/versions/sb0293.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 293 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 293 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **94–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Doug Gutwein — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (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`
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Perfect added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Senator Crider added as third author
- **2017-02-27** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 201: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Representative Gutwein
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** 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** Amendment #1 (Gutwein) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-20** Amendment #2 (Bartlett) failed; Roll Call 271: yeas 31, nays 62 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 287: yeas 94, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 436: yeas 48, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 106
- **2017-04-21** 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/9dd36ac5-f2ae-4a44-80de-3ebc28e216ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).