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type: "Bill"
title: "Regulation of charitable organizations."
description: "Prohibits a state agency or a state official from imposing on a charitable organization any filing or reporting requirements that are more stringent or burdensome than those imposed by, or authorized under, state or federal law. Provides that this limitation does not apply: (1) to requirements imposed in connection with: (A) state grants or contracts; or (B) fraud investigations; or (2) in connection with an enforcement action against a specific charitable organization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 302"
citation: "Indiana SB 302 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Liz Brown", "Michael Karickhoff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49aa7a25-3a29-414c-ae74-9eb126158074"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/302"
source_hash: "9499ad2d6e193296b00e783dfedd5418b9c52ace775bfe332e8847a141a6fb82"
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 302 (2023) — Regulation of charitable organizations.
Prohibits a state agency or a state official from imposing on a charitable organization any filing or reporting requirements that are more stringent or burdensome than those imposed by, or authorized under, state or federal law. Provides that this limitation does not apply: (1) to requirements imposed in connection with: (A) state grants or contracts; or (B) fraud investigations; or (2) in connection with an enforcement action against a specific charitable organization.
## 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/2023/bills/SB0302/versions/SB0302.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0302/versions/SB0302.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0302/versions/SB0302.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0302/versions/SB0302.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 302 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **931** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Renee Pack — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2023-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 22: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Karickhoff
- **2023-01-26** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2023-01-27** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14** Representative Miller D added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Representative Pack R added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 92, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 40 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49aa7a25-3a29-414c-ae74-9eb126158074`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).