---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1043"
citation: "Indiana HB 1043 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC QUESTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Jeffrey Thompson", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/950a22e2-82ab-4a00-bdb0-33f20ae04d88"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1043"
source_hash: "62a726b19d8848b11c57bbf32bff5d15ddd124ea9ff08c43c51d59447515ba81"
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 HB 1043 (2017) — 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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1043/versions/hb1043.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1043/versions/hb1043.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1043/versions/hb1043.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1043/versions/hb1043.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1043/versions/hb1043.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1043 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1043 - Thompson - 3rd Reading — **95–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Thompson
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** Representative Clere added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Representative Stemler added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Hershman
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 95, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Holdman added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 407: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Karickhoff, Clere and Pryor
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Thompson and Stemler
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Holdman, Breaux and Freeman
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Niezgodski
- **2017-04-21** Representative Smith M added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Representative Stemler removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 533: yeas 49, nays 1
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 558: yeas 86, nays 10
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 246
- **2017-04-28** 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/950a22e2-82ab-4a00-bdb0-33f20ae04d88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).