---
type: "Bill"
title: "Accountancy."
description: "Defines \"principal place of business\". Requires a certified public accountant applying for an initial issuance of a certificate to have one year of experience. (Under current law, an applicant must have two years of experience.) Requires a licensee to hold a license in good standing to convert it to inactive or retired status. Provides that nothing in the statute precludes an inactive or retired status certified public accountant from: (1) providing uncompensated services; (2) participating in a government sponsored business mentoring program; (3) serving on the board of directors for a nonprofit or governmental organization; or (4) serving on a government appointed advisory board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1327"
citation: "Indiana HB 1327 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ACCOUNTANTS AND ACCOUNTING", "BOARDS AND BOARD MEMBERSHIP", "HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Linda Rogers", "Martin Carbaugh"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d481d0a-c188-4253-a350-300110a05326"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1327"
source_hash: "4d9b8bd7184583e4a2fb6c48a3cd63ab289396ca1bdf15762dc5a27c173ae213"
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 1327 (2023) — Accountancy.

Defines "principal place of business". Requires a certified public accountant applying for an initial issuance of a certificate to have one year of experience. (Under current law, an applicant must have two years of experience.) Requires a licensee to hold a license in good standing to convert it to inactive or retired status. Provides that nothing in the statute precludes an inactive or retired status certified public accountant from: (1) providing uncompensated services; (2) participating in a government sponsored business mentoring program; (3) serving on the board of directors for a nonprofit or governmental organization; or (4) serving on a government appointed advisory board.

## 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/2023/bills/HB1327/versions/HB1327.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1327/versions/HB1327.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1327/versions/HB1327.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1327/versions/HB1327.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1327 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Authored by Representative Carbaugh
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
- **2023-02-01** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** Senator Buchanan added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 219: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-15** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Public Law 14 `became-law`
- **2023-04-05** 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/0d481d0a-c188-4253-a350-300110a05326`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).