---
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 440"
citation: "Indiana SB 440 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "REVENUE", "DEPARTMENT OF", "TAXES generally", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Daniel Leonard", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/791ccb4f-3f45-4d6a-8ad8-a82584baa5ea"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/440"
source_hash: "0e627fe2e55373f52187c8f1df8f36a2c1c0fd15ad6ea26cc6d1c8e0b88370c7"
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 440 (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/sb0440/versions/sb0440.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0440/versions/sb0440.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0440/versions/sb0440.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0440/versions/sb0440.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 440 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 440 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Hershman added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 131: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Leonard
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Representative Huston added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Amendment #2 (Hamilton) failed; Roll Call 273: yeas 29, nays 65 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-20** Amendment #3 (Shackleford) failed; Roll Call 274: yeas 31, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 356: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** 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 73
- **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/791ccb4f-3f45-4d6a-8ad8-a82584baa5ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).