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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 346"
+citation: "Indiana SB 346 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE", "DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jon Ford", "Ronald Grooms"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/346"
+source_hash: "8e36a269e067e9cdab7993f71252629475d8cbff3eda19988b3c2f4f828385d0"
+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 346 (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/sb0346/versions/sb0346.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 346 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 346 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Edward Clere — primary (person)
+- Jon Ford — primary (person)
+- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
+- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
+- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Coauthored by Senators Ford and Becker
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Grooms
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
+- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Clere
+- **2017-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Stemler and Engleman
+- **2017-01-30** Senator Ford removed as coauthor
+- **2017-01-30** Senator Ford added as second author
+- **2017-01-31** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 437: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** Public Law 114
+- **2017-04-21** 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/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+