---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensure of accountants."
description: "Revises the education and experience requirements for licensure as a certified public accountant. Repeals language allowing various substitutions for licensure requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1143"
citation: "Indiana HB 1143 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Finance Industry"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e27e253-a91d-4593-81bb-97554e5e13bb"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1143"
source_hash: "0984eb499cbeb359b559b385a1f6ed12e16b5c6a28b58d4d92d448640b26c66e"
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 1143 (2025) — Licensure of accountants.

Revises the education and experience requirements for licensure as a certified public accountant. Repeals language allowing various substitutions for licensure requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1143/HB1143.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1143 - VanNatter — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1143 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1143 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Gore
- **2025-01-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
- **2025-01-29** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Senator Buchanan added as third sponsor
- **2025-03-20** Senator Donato added as second sponsor
- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 362: yeas 90, nays 0
- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 85 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e27e253-a91d-4593-81bb-97554e5e13bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).