---
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 386"
citation: "Indiana SB 386 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSESSORS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE", "DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)", "PROPERTY TAXES", "Assessments", "Notices", "and Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harold Slager", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f45e1c5c-1690-42c3-a1da-1071b2eea31e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/386"
source_hash: "1a14d51cb8a58e7d6d33549ff4453427d50bd9095f904f236cc5d9c0e66da954"
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 386 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 386 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 386 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Niemeyer
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-07** Amendment #1 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-07** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2017-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 85: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2017-02-09** Cosponsor: Representative Aylesworth
- **2017-02-10** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #3 (Slager) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 327: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Niemeyer and Niezgodski
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Bohacek, Breaux and Hershman
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Slager and Pryor
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Aylesworth, Smith M, Leonard and Harris
- **2017-04-12** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 525: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 543: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 232
- **2017-04-28** 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/f45e1c5c-1690-42c3-a1da-1071b2eea31e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).