---
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 514"
citation: "Indiana SB 514 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS AND BOARD MEMBERSHIP", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION", "INDIANA", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally", "FORT WAYNE", "LAFAYETTE", "PROPERTY TAXES", "Credits and Deductions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Douglas Eckerty", "James Buck", "Sally Siegrist"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a52d27e-fb93-4d35-b3f5-43f452415bff"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/514"
source_hash: "9dab9b7753140ef91a20b7560871471d78ad14d0a9ae472ca9411eeae3a0a29c"
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 514 (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/sb0514/versions/sb0514.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.06.engh)
3. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.03.engs)
4. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.07.enrh)
5. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.01.intr)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.05.comh)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0514/versions/sb0514.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 514 - Siegrist - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 514 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **46–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Sally Siegrist — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Hershman
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 169: yeas 46, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Siegrist
- **2017-02-21** Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, T. and Carbaugh
- **2017-02-21** Senator Eckerty added as second author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Buck added as third author
- **2017-02-27** Senator Ford added as coauthor
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Brown T) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #2 (Miller D) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 386: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-04-05** Representative Pressel added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Breaux
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Eckerty, Stoops, Ford and Buck
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Siegrist and GiaQuinta
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Karickhoff, Huston, Brown C, Porter and Pryor
- **2017-04-12** Representative Heine added as advisor
- **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 526: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 544: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **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 238
- **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/7a52d27e-fb93-4d35-b3f5-43f452415bff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).