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type: "Bill"
title: "Professional sports and convention development areas."
description: "Increases the maximum amount of covered taxes that may be captured in the Allen County PSCDA from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. Provides for distribution of the covered taxes in the Allen County PSCDA as follows: (1) The first $2,600,000 to the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. (2) The next $400,000 to the Allen County-Fort Wayne capital improvement board (board) for the Grand Wayne Center. (3) The remaining amount to the board to be split evenly between the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and the Grand Wayne Center. Specifies the termination date of the Allen County PSCDA. Provides that the Evansville PSCDA (which is currently expired) is renewed beginning after June 30, 2021, for an additional 20 years, including the addition of the downtown convention center hotel to the Evansville PSCDA. Provides that the South Bend PSCDA (which is currently expired) is renewed beginning after June 30, 2021, for an additional 20 years, including the addition of three downtown hotels, the Howard Park event center, and facilities located at the Indiana University South Bend campus to the South Bend PSCDA. Provides that the maximum amount of covered taxes that may be captured in the renewed South Bend PSCDA is $2,000,000 per year. Revises the expiration date for the PSCDA chapter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 384"
citation: "Indiana SB 384 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally", "EVANSVILLE", "FORT WAYNE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Heine", "Ryan Mishler", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/feb464d7-1cd6-4521-8b35-a55c1749352c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/384"
source_hash: "a09757570f1894d8c79d1991001f42279839178012a575d40908e414966973f7"
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 SB 384 (2021) — Professional sports and convention development areas.
Increases the maximum amount of covered taxes that may be captured in the Allen County PSCDA from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. Provides for distribution of the covered taxes in the Allen County PSCDA as follows: (1) The first $2,600,000 to the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. (2) The next $400,000 to the Allen County-Fort Wayne capital improvement board (board) for the Grand Wayne Center. (3) The remaining amount to the board to be split evenly between the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and the Grand Wayne Center. Specifies the termination date of the Allen County PSCDA. Provides that the Evansville PSCDA (which is currently expired) is renewed beginning after June 30, 2021, for an additional 20 years, including the addition of the downtown convention center hotel to the Evansville PSCDA. Provides that the South Bend PSCDA (which is currently expired) is renewed beginning after June 30, 2021, for an additional 20 years, including the addition of three downtown hotels, the Howard Park event center, and facilities located at the Indiana University South Bend campus to the South Bend PSCDA. Provides that the maximum amount of covered taxes that may be captured in the renewed South Bend PSCDA is $2,000,000 per year. Revises the expiration date for the PSCDA chapter.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0384/versions/SB0384.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0384/versions/SB0384.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0384/versions/SB0384.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0384/versions/SB0384.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 384 - Heine - 3rd Reading — **923** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dave Heine — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- Craig Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Leonard — cosponsor (person)
- David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** Senator Mishler added as second author
- **2021-02-04** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** House sponsor: Representative Heine
- **2021-02-15** Cosponsor: Representative Sullivan
- **2021-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 114: yeas 41, nays 5 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Representative Sullivan removed as cosponsor
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2021-03-18** Representatives Zent, Carbaugh, Leonard, Abbott D, Judy, Snow C, Smaltz, Lehman, GiaQuinta added as cosponsors
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2021-03-22** Representatives Morris and Harris added as cosponsors
- **2021-03-23** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 298: yeas 92, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Representative Bauer M added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-29** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-03-30** Senator Busch added as coauthor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2021-04-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-04-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-19** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-19** Public Law 79
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/feb464d7-1cd6-4521-8b35-a55c1749352c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).