---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth employment."
description: "Allows a person who is at least 18 years of age to ring up a sale of alcoholic beverages in the course of the person's employment. Allows a waiter, waitress, or server who is at least 18 years of age to serve alcoholic beverages in a dining room of a restaurant or hotel under certain conditions. Provides certain exemptions from the employment of minors law. Provides, for purposes of the reporting requirement applicable to an employer that employs a specified number of minors, that: (1) a minor's date of hire is the first date on which the minor performs work for the employer; and (2) an employer must report any new or changed information not later than the fifteenth and last business days of each month. Provides that a civil penalty for a violation of certain provisions regarding the employment of minors may not be assessed for a violation of 10 minutes or less."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 146"
citation: "Indiana SB 146 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL)", "ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO; Alcohol Products", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Employment and Labor Law Issues", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Immunity and Exemption from Liability", "SCHOOLS; Vocational Education (Including Apprenticeships and Workforce Training)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Brian Buchanan", "Kendell Culp", "Linda Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ee260e4-9c62-49a4-ac28-7836f98ddaf1"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0146"
source_hash: "18b5705d463e78d9a9d836eb0495feccc966596992ffc0bddd337dd39f98ed5f"
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 146 (2024) — Youth employment.

Allows a person who is at least 18 years of age to ring up a sale of alcoholic beverages in the course of the person's employment. Allows a waiter, waitress, or server who is at least 18 years of age to serve alcoholic beverages in a dining room of a restaurant or hotel under certain conditions. Provides certain exemptions from the employment of minors law. Provides, for purposes of the reporting requirement applicable to an employer that employs a specified number of minors, that: (1) a minor's date of hire is the first date on which the minor performs work for the employer; and (2) an employer must report any new or changed information not later than the fifteenth and last business days of each month. Provides that a civil penalty for a violation of certain provisions regarding the employment of minors may not be assessed for a violation of 10 minutes or less.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0146/SB0146.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0146/SB0146.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0146/SB0146.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0146/SB0146.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 146 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **35–13** (pass) · upper
- SB 146 - Rogers - 2nd Reading — **11–37** (fail) · upper
- SB 146 - Culp - 3rd Reading — **81–10** (pass) · lower
- SB 146 - Rogers — **31–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Kendell Culp — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- David Vinzant — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Ethan Manning — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Heath VanNatter — cosponsor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Rogers
- **2024-01-22** Senator Buchanan added as second author
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Senator Doriot added as third author
- **2024-01-29** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2024-01-30** Senators Donato, Koch, Byrne, Vinzant added as coauthors
- **2024-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Amendment #1 (Hunley) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-05** Amendment #3 (Hunley) failed; Roll Call 93: yeas 11, nays 37 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-02-05** Amendment #6 (Garten) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives VanNatter, Manning, King
- **2024-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 128: yeas 35, nays 13 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Culp
- **2024-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 171: yeas 81, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-29** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 232: yeas 31, nays 13
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-12** Public Law 75 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ee260e4-9c62-49a4-ac28-7836f98ddaf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).