---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 507"
citation: "Indiana SB 507 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION", "INDIANA", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally", "OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Jerry Torr", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02b1d340-1634-4dca-af38-1d0533177e05"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/507"
source_hash: "7279b195a48808f643301d52e468b7f1be494f7d7e1f071cf79bc1153f4d0c1a"
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 507 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning economic development.

## 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/sb0507/versions/sb0507.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0507/versions/sb0507.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0507/versions/sb0507.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0507/versions/sb0507.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0507/versions/sb0507.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 507 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 507 - Head - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-17** 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
- **2017-02-14** Amendment #2 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 135: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Torr
- **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 Lehman added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-07** Representative Cherry added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 321: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-06** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2017-04-17** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-17** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2017-04-17** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Stoops
- **2017-04-17** Senate advisors appointed: Hershman, Randolph Lonnie M and Sandlin
- **2017-04-18** House conferees appointed: Torr and Macer
- **2017-04-18** House advisors appointed: Lehman, Cherry, Candelaria Reardon and Porter
- **2017-04-18** Dissent withdrawn
- **2017-04-18** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-20** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 488: yeas 46, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **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 237
- **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/02b1d340-1634-4dca-af38-1d0533177e05`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).