---
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: "HB 1129"
citation: "Indiana HB 1129 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INCOME TAXES", "Local Income Taxes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Jeffrey Thompson", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-05"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4811991f-5bad-4408-88e5-10fb9da8fc08"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1129"
source_hash: "abaeeb1bd7fb34ada7a0219f07293ad8a229fd59c0c3c6163cc1e7bc9c947262"
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 1129 (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 House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1129/versions/hb1129.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1129/versions/hb1129.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1129/versions/hb1129.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1129/versions/hb1129.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1129/versions/hb1129.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1129 - Thompson - 3rd Reading — **75–19** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1129 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-05** Authored by Representative Thompson
- **2017-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Representative Klinker added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsor: Senator Hershman
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 240: yeas 75, nays 19 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Holdman added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-30** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 409: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Karickhoff, Heine, Pryor and Harris
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Thompson and Klinker
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Bassler, Randolph Lonnie M and Perfect
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Hershman and Tallian
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 534: yeas 47, nays 3
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 557: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2017-04-26** 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 247
- **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/4811991f-5bad-4408-88e5-10fb9da8fc08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).