---
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 296"
citation: "Indiana SB 296 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS", "ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Sharon Negele"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48222264-7fec-464a-abcb-0e34c4ece346"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/296"
source_hash: "1d4295e1198b57b46c9a1e5246dc0a496306dc0b79b18cf0cd3ce34232ceabd3"
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 296 (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/sb0296/versions/sb0296.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0296/versions/sb0296.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0296/versions/sb0296.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0296/versions/sb0296.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 296 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 296 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **79–16** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 85: yeas 45, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Negele
- **2018-01-29** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Reassigned to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 79, nays 16 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **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 99
- **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/48222264-7fec-464a-abcb-0e34c4ece346`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).