republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-175.md

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Bill	Agreements between beer wholesalers and suppliers.	Requires a primary source of supply (primary source) that wants to amend, cancel, terminate, or refuse to renew a distribution agreement entered into with a beer wholesaler to: (1) act in good faith, with good cause, and with due regard for the equities of the beer wholesaler; and (2) provide written notice. Provides that a primary source has a right to amend, cancel, terminate, or refuse to renew distribution agreements with all beer wholesalers that have entered into the same distribution agreement with the primary source and are located in the United States. Prohibits a primary source or beer wholesaler from waiving any provisions of the law regarding distribution agreements.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 175	Indiana SB 175 (2021)	bill	ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Licenses Permits and Taxes	enacted	Gregory Steuerwald Mark Messmer Ron Alting Ronald Grooms	5	39	1	2021-01-05	2021-04-29	openstates	ocd-bill/88f574bd-08d2-4693-9b69-b5973234b8a2	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/175	2c3ccad702c8fe9ac630e71c73e4bb7b32b8abf0f9a7ddbac7989e4673d45ce5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 175 (2021) — Agreements between beer wholesalers and suppliers.

Requires a primary source of supply (primary source) that wants to amend, cancel, terminate, or refuse to renew a distribution agreement entered into with a beer wholesaler to: (1) act in good faith, with good cause, and with due regard for the equities of the beer wholesaler; and (2) provide written notice. Provides that a primary source has a right to amend, cancel, terminate, or refuse to renew distribution agreements with all beer wholesalers that have entered into the same distribution agreement with the primary source and are located in the United States. Prohibits a primary source or beer wholesaler from waiving any provisions of the law regarding distribution agreements.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 175 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Ron Alting — primary (person)
• Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
• David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
• Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
• Justin Moed — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-05 Authored by Senators Messmer and Alting
• 2021-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 House sponsor: Representative Lehman
• 2021-02-02 Cosponsor: Representative Smaltz
• 2021-02-02 Senator Grooms added as third author
• 2021-02-02 Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
• 2021-02-02 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2021-02-03 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Representative Clere added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-16 Representative Moed added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-25 Representatives Smaltz, Clere, Moed removed as cosponsors
• 2021-03-25 Representative Lehman removed as sponsor
• 2021-03-25 Representative Lehman added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-25 Representative Steuerwald added as sponsor
• 2021-03-29 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-29 Representatives Clere and Moed added as cosponsors
• 2021-04-01 Amendment #1 (Moed) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-01 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-04-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 352: yeas 93, nays 3 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-06 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-06 Motion to dissent filed
• 2021-04-06 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-08 Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Niezgodski
• 2021-04-08 Senate advisors appointed: Alting and Breaux
• 2021-04-08 House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Moed
• 2021-04-08 House advisors appointed: Bartels, Mayfield and Johnson
• 2021-04-14 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2021-04-14 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2021-04-19 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 454: yeas 42, nays 6
• 2021-04-20 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 469: yeas 86, nays 4
• 2021-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-28 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-29 Public Law 139

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/88f574bd-08d2-4693-9b69-b5973234b8a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).