---
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 1342"
citation: "Indiana HB 1342 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INCOME TAXES", "Adjusted Gross Income Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luke Kenley", "Robert Cherry", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/058c904f-3885-467a-9aaa-7e28dc71b584"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1342"
source_hash: "b3022e686bd256cab711b30eb1251dd386b0ae9159e3b2ead4dc5e1983147e47"
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 1342 (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/hb1342/versions/hb1342.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1342/versions/hb1342.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1342/versions/hb1342.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1342/versions/hb1342.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1342 - Cherry - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1342 - Kenley - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Robert Cherry — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — coauthor (person)
- Terry Goodin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Cherry
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Representative Thompson added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Representatives Stemler and Goodin added as coauthors
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Kenley
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 72: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senators Niezgodski and Breaux added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Mishler added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Brown L and Taylor G
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Kenley and Breaux
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Siegrist and Stemler
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Cherry and Goodin
- **2017-04-21** Representative Kirchhofer added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Representative Cherry removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Crider added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Kenley 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 535: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 556: yeas 97, nays 0
- **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 249
- **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/058c904f-3885-467a-9aaa-7e28dc71b584`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).