---
type: "Bill"
title: "Preferences in public works and public purchasing."
description: "Provides that a manufacturing business, defined as a business that processes raw materials or parts into finished goods, is not a small business if it employs more than 100 persons or if its annual sales for its most recently completed fiscal year exceed $4,000,000. Provides that any state agency that purchases goods, supplies, or services for the state must report by October 1 of each year to the budget committee the amount of Indiana business and Indiana small business preferences granted in the agency's procurement of goods, supplies, or services for the state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 74"
citation: "Indiana SB 74 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC CONTRACTS", "SMALL BUSINESSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Philip Boots", "Robert Morris"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acc26aa2-09c0-4f33-9553-1d7f51273dcc"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/74"
source_hash: "d3952e2c6a2effa45bd881fa847c6a68f27a73c003f0486bf5acba89c78aa5f6"
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 74 (2022) — Preferences in public works and public purchasing.

Provides that a manufacturing business, defined as a business that processes raw materials or parts into finished goods, is not a small business if it employs more than 100 persons or if its annual sales for its most recently completed fiscal year exceed $4,000,000. Provides that any state agency that purchases goods, supplies, or services for the state must report by October 1 of each year to the budget committee the amount of Indiana business and Indiana small business preferences granted in the agency's procurement of goods, supplies, or services for the state.

## 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/SB0074/versions/SB0074.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0074/versions/SB0074.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0074/versions/SB0074.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0074/versions/SB0074.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 74 - Morris - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Robert Morris — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Boots
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Morris
- **2022-01-24** Senator Walker G added as second author
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 50

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acc26aa2-09c0-4f33-9553-1d7f51273dcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).