republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-3.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State and local tax review task force."
description: "Establishes the state and local tax review task force (task force). Specifies the membership of the task force and the topics the task force is required to review. Provides that the member of the task force who is an economist is appointed jointly by the president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. Provides for the selection of the chairperson and vice chairperson of the task force."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Indiana SB 3 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "NON-CODE BILLS", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "TAXES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey Thompson", "Scott Baldwin", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22bcae05-d93a-4b88-a127-968a41bc6e4d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/3"
source_hash: "0c5c6affb922cd5311dde38ac6273ac157172a01ccf60061b3777183da2cabb1"
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 3 (2023) — State and local tax review task force.

Establishes the state and local tax review task force (task force). Specifies the membership of the task force and the topics the task force is required to review. Provides that the member of the task force who is an economist is appointed jointly by the president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. Provides for the selection of the chairperson and vice chairperson of the task force.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.05.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0003/versions/SB0003.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 3 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
- Dave Heine — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Senator Baldwin added as second author
- **2023-01-23** Senator Garten added as coauthor
- **2023-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-23** Amendment #1 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-23** Amendment #4 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-23** Amendment #3 (Yoder) failed; Roll Call 151: yeas 9, nays 39 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Thompson
- **2023-02-27** Cosponsors: Representatives Heine, Lehman, Prescott
- **2023-02-28** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 422: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2023-04-18** Senate conferees appointed: Holdman and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2023-04-18** Senate advisors appointed: Niezgodski and Baldwin
- **2023-04-18** House conferees appointed: Thompson and Porter
- **2023-04-18** House advisors appointed: Heine, Prescott and Harris
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 562: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2023-04-28** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 535: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 163 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22bcae05-d93a-4b88-a127-968a41bc6e4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).