---
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: "SB 124"
citation: "Indiana SB 124 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FOODS; FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAXES", "VENDING MACHINES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Greg Walker", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8fdec71-3d82-4c9c-94ab-2b8f77059d9b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/124"
source_hash: "ed3b116d8269c739e06430d0b0ee50c51b3a49a12270a96307e08f1c29d34365"
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 124 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0124/versions/sb0124.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0124/versions/sb0124.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0124/versions/sb0124.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0124/versions/sb0124.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 124 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 124 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Ober — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Walker added as second author
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 161: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Porter
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 303: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 356: yeas 45, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 92
- **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/c8fdec71-3d82-4c9c-94ab-2b8f77059d9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).