---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1135"
citation: "Indiana HB 1135 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SECRETARY OF STATE", "FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Robert Heaton", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2dfeee6-3df9-4094-b484-e80888bbbf1b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1135"
source_hash: "55dbf667f350b1e0f14360b961ccf5d9ea2825bc07a0b58968e9809ac81b1fdd"
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 1135 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning business and other associations.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1135/versions/hb1135.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1135/versions/hb1135.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1135/versions/hb1135.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1135/versions/hb1135.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1135 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1135 - Heaton - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Robert Heaton — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Jeff Ellington — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Representative Heaton
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Representatives Ellington and GiaQuinta added as coauthors
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Holdman and Perfect
- **2018-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 32

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2dfeee6-3df9-4094-b484-e80888bbbf1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).