---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 353"
citation: "Indiana SB 353 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TRADE REGULATIONS", "CONSUMER CREDIT AND PROTECTION (including UCCC)", "LAND AND LANDOWNERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Martin Carbaugh", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7174c51-2a3f-4c44-9154-3f8353f0f3e4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/353"
source_hash: "a35e8c673dd6adafdb1d76ca2e050785f14868233d2a5b2eb686e6c2778dc685"
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 353 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.

## 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/sb0353/versions/sb0353.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0353/versions/sb0353.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0353/versions/sb0353.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0353/versions/sb0353.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0353/versions/sb0353.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0353/versions/sb0353.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 353 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 353 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsors: Representatives Carbaugh, Lehman and Pressel
- **2017-02-27** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative VanNatter removed as sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative Carbaugh added as sponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative Carbaugh removed as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative VanNatter added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Carbaugh) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 416: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 451: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 170
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7174c51-2a3f-4c44-9154-3f8353f0f3e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).