{"id":1081,"date":"2018-01-01T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesslaw.smithrayl.com\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:36:48","slug":"indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Business Entity Harmonization:  Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[March 3, 2018. The General Assembly amended some of the provisions created the Business Entity Harmonization Bill, as discussed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-postscript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postscript<\/a> to this series.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the second of a four-part series discussing the Business Entity Harmonization Bill passed by the Indiana General Assembly in 2017. An overview of the bill is provided in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Part I<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Enrolled Act 443 creates, effective as of January 1, 2018, a new Article 0.5 in Title 23 of the Indiana Code, the Uniform Business Organizations Code, that includes a number of provisions that apply to Indiana business corporations (including professional corporations and benefit corporations, but excluding insurance companies), limited liability companies (LLCs, including series LLCs), limited partnerships (LPs), limited liability partnerships (LLPs), and nonprofit corporations, eliminating a number of inconsistencies between similar provisions for different types of entities. The following discussion is a brief description of some of the more important provisions, drawing attention to new or substantially changed provisions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part-ii\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Indiana Business Entity Harmonization:  Part II\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uniform Business Organizations Code consolidates a number of provisions into a single chapter that addresses business corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and nonprofit corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,12,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporations","category-indiana-general-assembly","category-limited-liability-companies","category-non-profit-organizations","category-partnerships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indiana Business Entity Harmonization: Part II &#8212; Indiana Business Law Blog &#8212; January 1, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Uniform Business Organizations Code consolidates a number of provisions into a single chapter that addresses business corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and nonprofit corporations. &#8212; January 1, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hpindiana.law\/business-blog\/indiana-business-entity-harmonization-part-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael R. 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