---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 443"
citation: "Indiana SB 443 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS", "CORPORATIONS", "SMALL BUSINESSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mark Messmer", "Martin Carbaugh", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/efdd1483-70be-4285-a327-cb876eb86b76"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/443"
source_hash: "d918c2bb4377e471ede7b82ba95b53e527760faa2201f3f351a9ded41faf33fe"
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 443 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations.

## 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/sb0443/versions/sb0443.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0443/versions/sb0443.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0443/versions/sb0443.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0443/versions/sb0443.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0443/versions/sb0443.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 443 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 443 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Messmer added as third author
- **2017-02-06** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Amendment #2 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 124: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2017-02-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 357: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 118
- **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/efdd1483-70be-4285-a327-cb876eb86b76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).