Indiana Senate Bill 283 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Passed on April 21 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-21 - Public Law 105
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Pyramid promotional schemes. Removes references to pyramid promotional schemes in the deceptive consumer sales law and addresses pyramid promotional schemes in a separate law. Provides that a person may not establish, promote, operate, or participate in a pyramid promotional scheme. Specifies the enforcement powers of the attorney general with respect to a person who establishes, operates, or promotes a pyramid promotional scheme. Provides for a private cause of action for a consumer deceived by a pyramid promotional scheme. Provides that, in certain circumstances, the burden of showing that a person benefitted from a pyramid scheme lies with the plan or

Pyramid promotional schemes. Removes references to pyramid promotional schemes in the deceptive consumer sales law and addresses pyramid promotional schemes in a separate law. Provides that a person may not establish, promote, operate, or participate in a pyramid promotional scheme. Specifies the enforcement powers of the attorney general with respect to a person who establishes, operates, or promotes a pyramid promotional scheme. Provides for a private cause of action for a consumer deceived by a pyramid promotional scheme. Provides that, in certain circumstances, the burden of showing that a person benefitted from a pyramid scheme lies with the plan or

Sen. Mark Messmer [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]	Sen. Greg Taylor [D]	Rep. Matthew Lehman [R]
Rep. Robert Heaton [R]

2017-04-10 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House Amendments (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-04-03 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2017-03-27 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-02-27 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-02-20 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-21	Senate	Public Law 105
2017-04-21	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2017-04-20	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2017-04-19	House	Signed by the Speaker
2017-04-13	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2017-04-10	Senate	Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 435: yeas 49, nays 0
2017-04-04	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2017-04-04	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2017-04-03	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 354: yeas 94, nays 0
2017-03-30	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-03-27	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-03-07	House	Representative Heaton added as cosponsor
2017-03-06	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
2017-02-28	Senate	Referred to the House
2017-02-27	Senate	Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
2017-02-27	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Lehman
2017-02-27	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 200: yeas 49, nays 0
2017-02-23	Senate	Senator Head added as second author
2017-02-23	Senate	Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote
2017-02-23	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-02-21	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-02-16	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Civil Law
2017-01-09	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
2017-01-09	Senate	Authored by Senator Messmer

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/283/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/5/9/0/659043a8/SB0283.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/1/a/7/21a744ef/SB0283.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/b/d/f/dbdfcb7b/SB0283.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/6/e/e/76ee5bbd/SB0283.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/d/0/1/ad0191e9/SB0283.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/b/a/9/2ba9ff57/SB0283.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/d/b/9adb9e95/SB0283.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/a/7/7/6a778a06/SB0283.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/d/e/d6de29b8/SB0283.05.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/d/9/7/ed97ca23/SB0283.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/6/9/85699db9/SB0283.200.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/4/0/7/7407b07f/SB0283.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/a/b/4/bab4de4c/SB0283.354.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/1/7/3/1173896f/SB0283.435.pdf