---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 294"
citation: "Indiana SB 294 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Jeff Raatz", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2f7c76f-6cc3-4dea-9543-727a88f87dd9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/294"
source_hash: "6072ba9f92fa7c1ab01110caf6214e26632b3c57d731fe6bff03d9e98e005143"
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 294 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning agriculture and animals.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.06.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.05.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.03.coms)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0294/versions/sb0294.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 294 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 294 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **44–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
- Randy Lyness — cosponsor (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`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 155: yeas 44, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
- **2017-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Lyness
- **2017-02-21** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Perfect added as coauthor
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** 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** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 96, nays 0 `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 59
- **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/e2f7c76f-6cc3-4dea-9543-727a88f87dd9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).