---
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 1520"
citation: "Indiana HB 1520 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INHERITANCE AND ESTATE TAXES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Heath VanNatter", "Mark Messmer", "Michael Delph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e567b716-1cf5-40f4-b2dd-ed4e7eb393a2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1520"
source_hash: "75411801dec1e861bf8cb41238d8a4cf63e0d703ec37c3b384180f35180271ad"
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 1520 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1520/versions/hb1520.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1520/versions/hb1520.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1520/versions/hb1520.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1520/versions/hb1520.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1520 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1520 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Select Committee on Government Reduction `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Representatives Judy, Miller, Pressel added as coauthors
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 107: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Delph added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Koch added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 316: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-11** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 79
- **2017-04-13** 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/e567b716-1cf5-40f4-b2dd-ed4e7eb393a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).