---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hunting and fishing license agents."
description: "Provides that (in addition to the $0.75 service fee a license agent authorized to sell licenses for fish and wildlife shall retain) a license agent may also charge on each transaction both a: (1) $0.25 processing fee; and (2) 1.96% fee; to cover credit card processing costs associated with the sale of a license."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 184"
citation: "Indiana SB 184 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FISH AND WILDLIFE", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Michael Crider", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fec14c0-6d7d-4f9d-8942-ffe63d8a46a1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/184"
source_hash: "52b995a4a447bb335bbb943fbfc3e37cd0ff5529b46bcb3463367cc613213ac9"
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 184 (2023) — Hunting and fishing license agents.

Provides that (in addition to the $0.75 service fee a license agent authorized to sell licenses for fish and wildlife shall retain) a license agent may also charge on each transaction both a: (1) $0.25 processing fee; and (2) 1.96% fee; to cover credit card processing costs associated with the sale of a license.

## 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/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.06.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.05.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.03.COMS)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0184/versions/SB0184.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 184 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **92–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Beau Baird — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Baldwin
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-02** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2023-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Morrison
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2023-03-27** Representative Baird added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 351: yeas 92, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 35 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fec14c0-6d7d-4f9d-8942-ffe63d8a46a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).