---
type: "Bill"
title: "Popcorn grown in Indiana."
description: "Designates popcorn grown in Indiana as the official state snack of Indiana."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 97"
citation: "Indiana SB 97 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "FLAGS AND SYMBOLS", "INDIANA AND UNITED STATES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-05"
last_action: "2021-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c04772b-826b-4f74-80af-0e46b0b074a0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/97"
source_hash: "9f7f5a0fed68839cdfc8e3f38ac1c7cb3e0ab4de65f6043dbe3fdf545218e59c"
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 97 (2021) — Popcorn grown in Indiana.

Designates popcorn grown in Indiana as the official state snack of Indiana.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0097/versions/SB0097.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0097/versions/SB0097.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0097/versions/SB0097.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0097/versions/SB0097.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 97 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **87–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Craig Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2021-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-14** Senator Leising added as second author
- **2021-01-14** Senator Zay added as third author
- **2021-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 10: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2021-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
- **2021-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Davisson
- **2021-01-26** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2021-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Representatives Vermilion A and Snow C added as cosponsors
- **2021-03-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 327: yeas 87, nays 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-15** Public Law 46

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c04772b-826b-4f74-80af-0e46b0b074a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).