---
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 1157"
citation: "Indiana HB 1157 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET", "SMALL BUSINESSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Miller", "James Tomes", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8a52c06-a3e0-4825-b8e0-9bb29eb8da9e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1157"
source_hash: "d3f0b86111a281254a956a1a756288fbd31bfd30d325b92591995fa6acad629c"
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 1157 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1157/versions/hb1157.05.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1157/versions/hb1157.04.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1157/versions/hb1157.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1157/versions/hb1157.03.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1157/versions/hb1157.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1157 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1157 - Miller - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Doug Gutwein — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Representative Miller D
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Select Committee on Government Reduction `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-10** Representative Gutwein added as coauthor
- **2017-01-12** Representative Schaibley added as coauthor
- **2017-01-17** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Tomes added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 287: yeas 47, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Ford added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 430: yeas 96, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 139
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8a52c06-a3e0-4825-b8e0-9bb29eb8da9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).