Endorsed by NFIB, Indiana’s Small Business Association

NFIB, the small business association, has endorsed my re-election in House District 88 through its Indiana PAC.

Indiana’s state troopers and its professional fire fighters have both endorsed this campaign. This one comes from a different direction, and it is the one I have the most personal history with.

I am a founding partner of a law firm. I have signed the front of a paycheck, not just the back of one. I know what it is to make payroll in a slow month, to read a new rule and try to work out what it is going to cost, and to wonder whether the people writing that rule have ever had to meet a payroll themselves.

That is why NFIB’s endorsement lands the way it does. The people who make this call are not consultants. The NFIB Indiana PAC is made up of NFIB members from across the state, small business owners themselves, and they decide by looking at how a legislator actually voted. Here is what their letter said:

A voting record is a durable thing. It is written down, it is public, and it does not change when the room does. The four laws behind that record are below, with the vote counts attached.

Small businesses are most of the jobs in this district. Not the biggest headlines, just most of the jobs. I intend to keep voting that way.

Rep. Chris Jeter (R-Fishers) represents Indiana House District 88, which includes portions of Hancock, Hamilton, Madison and Marion counties. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee and co-chairs the Bail and Release Review Commission.

The record behind this endorsement

Four enacted laws, one in each of four consecutive sessions. Every date, vote count and public law number below comes from the Indiana General Assembly’s own records, and Rep. Jeter’s individual votes come from the recorded roll calls.

2022: cutting the income tax and killing the utility receipts tax

It cut the individual income tax rate from 3.23% to 3.15% and repealed both the utility receipts tax and the utility services use tax. Every business in Indiana pays a utility bill, so the repeal reached storefronts and shops as directly as it reached households.

2023: taking the rate to 2.9% and removing the conditions

In the General Assembly’s own words, it “reduces the individual income tax rate to 2.9% by 2027 and eliminates all trigger provisions in current law.” Most Indiana small businesses are pass-through entities, so the owner pays business income at the individual rate. Removing the triggers is what turned a possible cut into a date a business owner can plan against. The rate is 2.95% in 2026 and falls to 2.9% on January 1, 2027.

2024: when the agency has to pay your legal bill

This is the least famous of the four and, for a small business fighting a state agency, possibly the most useful. It made the office of administrative law proceedings the ultimate authority in administrative cases under its jurisdiction, and it set out when a state agency can be required to pay a party’s reasonable attorney fees in a judicial review. The practical problem it addresses is familiar to anyone who has been on the wrong end of a state agency: the agency can afford to keep going and you cannot.

2025: raising the business personal property exemption

The property tax package is known for the homestead credit, but it also raises the business personal property tax exemption, the threshold below which a business does not pay tax on its equipment. For a shop with a few machines, a couple of trucks and some computers, that is the difference between filing and not filing.

Common questions about this endorsement

What is NFIB?

The National Federation of Independent Business, a small business advocacy organization representing independently owned and operated businesses. It works at the state and federal level on taxes, regulation, health costs and labor mandates, and it surveys its own members to set its positions.

What is the NFIB Indiana PAC?

The political action committee of NFIB’s Indiana membership. It is made up solely of NFIB members from across the state, and it decides endorsements by reviewing a candidate’s small business voting record along with their working relationship with the organization. In the 2026 cycle it endorsed candidates for both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly.

What does a 100% NFIB voting record mean?

NFIB tracks how legislators vote on the bills it identifies as key small business votes and scores them against its own positions. The 100% figure is NFIB’s assessment of Rep. Jeter’s record, stated in its endorsement letter. The scoring standard and the choice of which votes count are NFIB’s own.

What has Rep. Jeter actually voted for?

Four enacted laws carry most of it: the 2022 income tax cut and utility receipts tax repeal (Public Law 138-2022), the 2023 budget that set the income tax on a path to 2.9% and removed the revenue triggers (Public Law 201-2023), the 2024 administrative law overhaul that can make an agency pay a party’s attorney fees (Public Law 128-2024), and the 2025 property tax package that raised the business personal property exemption (Public Law 68-2025). He voted yes on all four.

Which organizations have endorsed Chris Jeter in 2026?

Three so far. The Indiana State Police Alliance, representing Indiana State Police troopers. The Indiana Professional Fire Fighters PAC, affiliated with the Professional Fire Fighters Union of Indiana. And the NFIB Indiana PAC, representing Indiana’s small business community.

Who represents Indiana House District 88?

Rep. Chris Jeter, a Republican from Fishers. The district includes portions of Hancock, Hamilton, Madison and Marion counties. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee, co-chairs the Bail and Release Review Commission, and is a founding partner of a Fishers law firm and a Navy JAG veteran of the Iraq War.

Paid for by Jeter for Indiana.