---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 180"
citation: "Indiana SB 180 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS", "SECRETARY OF STATE", "CORPORATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Martin Carbaugh", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f066437a-8c03-4b5a-9c08-80cc4e7c512d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/180"
source_hash: "4f191b93556954a292a3953670992d339d99f34ae22933431c6fa5c4f56d7ee3"
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 180 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0180/versions/sb0180.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0180/versions/sb0180.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0180/versions/sb0180.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0180/versions/sb0180.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 180 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 180 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative DeLaney
- **2018-01-23** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 211: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 275: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 52

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f066437a-8c03-4b5a-9c08-80cc4e7c512d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).