By alley - Apr 2, 2015, 12:15 PM ET

IndyCar's Miles involved in religious freedom law fix

The Indianapolis Star

reports that IndyCar boss Mark Miles (ABOVE, IMS photo) was among a group of Indiana business leaders who worked with state legislators to come up with a revised version of the "religious freedom law" signed last week by Governor Mike Pence. The law has been the subject of intense controversy throughout the state and nationwide, owing to fears that it provides for discrimination, and

was publicly criticized Tuesday by NASCAR in an official statement

. Indiana Republicans said that sexual orientation and gender identity will be explicitly protected in the new law.

Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, spent 90 minutes meeting late Wednesday evening discussing the deal with top staff and Gov. Mike Pence's chief of staff, Jim Atterholt, the Star reports. "We feel there is a strong consensus," Long said following the meeting. "We feel good about it. We did a lot of hard work to bring the groups together to find the comfort level everyone feels does the job of truly saying this does not discriminate against anyone."

Atterholt did not say whether Pence would sign the compromise measure, noting that that the governor still needed to review the plan.

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