---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 283"
citation: "Indiana SB 283 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSUMER CREDIT AND PROTECTION (including UCCC)", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Messmer", "Matt Lehman", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02d0fe41-924c-45d0-9d08-8fbe12fd123c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/283"
source_hash: "d6fa7253321f33e275be1bd6bcb81d6874f0b8f6475e869df6468824dcca4d46"
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 283 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning trade regulation.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0283/versions/sb0283.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0283/versions/sb0283.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0283/versions/sb0283.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0283/versions/sb0283.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0283/versions/sb0283.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 283 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 283 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Robert Heaton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Civil Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Head added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 200: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Representative Heaton added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 354: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 435: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 105
- **2017-04-21** 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/02d0fe41-924c-45d0-9d08-8fbe12fd123c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).