---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1027"
citation: "Indiana HB 1027 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMISSIONS TAXES", "GAMBLING AND GAMES OF CHANCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93781acd-c2bf-4b0a-a893-7cd0da7f98ff"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1027"
source_hash: "9d66f7296bcada79bb3b90e4260d6eb584bc40e49fa2e2181762cc360e014acc"
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 HB 1027 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1027/versions/hb1027.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1027/versions/hb1027.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1027/versions/hb1027.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1027/versions/hb1027.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1027 - Perfect - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1027 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **88–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Randy Lyness — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Authored by Representative Frye R
- **2018-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Representatives Lyness and Brown, C. added as coauthors
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Perfect
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 77: yeas 88, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 287: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 342: yeas 91, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 109
- **2018-03-15** 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/93781acd-c2bf-4b0a-a893-7cd0da7f98ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).