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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 152"
+citation: "Indiana SB 152 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY", "PROPERTY", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "Redevelopment and Renovation of Urban Areas", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-04"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0129d21-6d96-4fe4-a415-8014cbfa70ab"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/152"
+source_hash: "4ba4e0d21ce2ecd0060d252a9674e762de47a4307b8e8edc8ef95fcaac3280bb"
+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 152 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 152 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 152 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **92–2** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — primary (person)
+- Randall Head — primary (person)
+- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Merritt
+- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Zent
+- **2017-01-30** Senator Head added as second author
+- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-06** Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-13** Representative Harris added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Miller added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 92, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 52
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0129d21-6d96-4fe4-a415-8014cbfa70ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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