republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-195.md

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Bill	Proof of mailing date.	Provides that payment mailed to the county treasurer with metered postage is timely received if: (1) the envelope is properly addressed to the principal office of the county treasurer; (2) the envelope has sufficient metered postage from a meter postage provider approved by the United States Postal Service; (3) the metered postage is affixed to the envelope and bears the actual date of when it was affixed and that date is on or before the due date; and (4) the envelope is received by the county treasurer not later than five business days after the due date. Provides that a taxpayer is subject to a penalty of 5% of the amount of delinquent taxes if a payment to the county treasurer is: (1) mailed or deposited with a parcel carrier by the thirtieth day after the due date (the initial penalty period) and the postmark, certificate of delivery, or other evidence indicates the date of the mailing or deposit; or (2) mailed and affixed with a metered postage stamp indicating a date not later than the thirtieth day after the due date and the payment is received by the county treasurer not later than five business days after the thirtieth day after the due date. Provides that if a payment is mailed and received not later than 30 days after the due date without a legible post mark, the person is considered to have made the payment by the thirtieth day after the due date, if the person can show by reasonable evidence that the payment was timely mailed. Provides that if a payment is mailed or sent by parcel carrier but not received by the thirtieth day after the due date, the person is considered to have made the payment by the thirtieth day after the due date, if the person can show by reasonable evidence that the payment was timely mailed and makes a duplicate payment within 30 days after the person is notified that the payment was not received.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 195	Indiana SB 195 (2021)	bill	PROPERTY TAXES generally TREASURERS	enacted	Brad Barrett Dennis Kruse Jeff Raatz	5	24	1	2021-01-05	2021-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/acb8a830-1bf3-4fe6-9f37-54a09a24bc4c	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/195	fa39d907431e3c12dbc3ae662699928da1c3cdc09b10494a553f3d8a25990d78	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 195 (2021) — Proof of mailing date.

Provides that payment mailed to the county treasurer with metered postage is timely received if: (1) the envelope is properly addressed to the principal office of the county treasurer; (2) the envelope has sufficient metered postage from a meter postage provider approved by the United States Postal Service; (3) the metered postage is affixed to the envelope and bears the actual date of when it was affixed and that date is on or before the due date; and (4) the envelope is received by the county treasurer not later than five business days after the due date. Provides that a taxpayer is subject to a penalty of 5% of the amount of delinquent taxes if a payment to the county treasurer is: (1) mailed or deposited with a parcel carrier by the thirtieth day after the due date (the initial penalty period) and the postmark, certificate of delivery, or other evidence indicates the date of the mailing or deposit; or (2) mailed and affixed with a metered postage stamp indicating a date not later than the thirtieth day after the due date and the payment is received by the county treasurer not later than five business days after the thirtieth day after the due date. Provides that if a payment is mailed and received not later than 30 days after the due date without a legible post mark, the person is considered to have made the payment by the thirtieth day after the due date, if the person can show by reasonable evidence that the payment was timely mailed. Provides that if a payment is mailed or sent by parcel carrier but not received by the thirtieth day after the due date, the person is considered to have made the payment by the thirtieth day after the due date, if the person can show by reasonable evidence that the payment was timely mailed and makes a duplicate payment within 30 days after the person is notified that the payment was not received.

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 195 - Barrett - 3rd Reading — 97–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brad Barrett — primary (person)
• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Cherrish Pryor — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-05 Authored by Senator Raatz
• 2021-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Senator Kruse added as second author
• 2021-01-25 Senators Gaskill and Rogers added as coauthors
• 2021-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 House sponsor: Representative Barrett
• 2021-02-03 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-15 Amendment #1 (Barrett) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-03-15 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-03-15 Representative Pryor added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-16 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 270: yeas 97, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-16 Representative Zent added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-17 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-03-29 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-01 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 314: yeas 48, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-13 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-21 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-22 Public Law 95

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/acb8a830-1bf3-4fe6-9f37-54a09a24bc4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).