---
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: "SB 515"
citation: "Indiana SB 515 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INCOME TAXES", "Deductions", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "SALES AND USE TAXES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Timothy Brown", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7ccb129-818a-4eab-ad1b-aea7062bb099"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/515"
source_hash: "82ea02be59386c727d3991783de7bafaf7b80e0d69ebeb0d152186c8c14ca800"
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 515 (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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0515/versions/sb0515.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0515/versions/sb0515.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0515/versions/sb0515.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0515/versions/sb0515.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0515/versions/sb0515.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 515 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **93–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 515 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Hershman
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #3 (Tallian) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Senator Holdman added as second author
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 210: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Brown T
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** Representative Huston added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #3 (Porter) failed; Roll Call 315: yeas 28, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #1 (Forestal) failed; Roll Call 316: yeas 27, nays 67 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 320: yeas 93, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Stoops
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Holdman, Randolph Lonnie M, Bassler and Perfect
- **2017-04-11** House conferees appointed: Brown T and Porter
- **2017-04-11** House advisors appointed: Gutwein, Karickhoff, Candelaria Reardon and Pryor
- **2017-04-12** Representative Heine added as advisor
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 527: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 545: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2017-04-25** 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 239
- **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/e7ccb129-818a-4eab-ad1b-aea7062bb099`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).