---
type: "Bill"
title: "Automatic taxpayer refund."
description: "Removes a provision that requires taxpayers to have adjusted gross income tax liability in order to qualify for an automatic taxpayer refund. Makes clarifying changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "Indiana SB 1 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INCOME TAXES", "Adjusted Gross Income Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Mishler", "Timothy Brown", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6544c722-a277-4aac-8f8c-4c3c90c641af"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/1"
source_hash: "21be14bf64842d2e9b0e8215eaf17a6c8a36494bfe1836115fa721fa35c78da1"
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 1 (2022) — Automatic taxpayer refund.

Removes a provision that requires taxpayers to have adjusted gross income tax liability in order to qualify for an automatic taxpayer refund. Makes clarifying changes.

## 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/2022/bills/SB0001/versions/SB0001.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0001/versions/SB0001.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0001/versions/SB0001.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0001/versions/SB0001.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 1 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-11** Senator Mishler added as second author
- **2022-01-11** Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
- **2022-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 22: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Brown T
- **2022-01-20** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Representative Porter added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-15** Amendment #1 (Porter) ruled out of order `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-02-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 2
- **2022-03-07** 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/6544c722-a277-4aac-8f8c-4c3c90c641af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).