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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 400"
+citation: "Indiana SB 400 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Ben Smaltz", "Ron Alting"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fdcc832-e04b-420d-9f60-2cfbbf28828d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/400"
+source_hash: "d061a703bc233a9cbb5cacd1eabc2831547113d1e24540be0347a627eafd1231"
+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 400 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 400 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 400 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **72–26** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
+- Ron Alting — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Freeman
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-06** Senator Alting added as second author
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 161: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `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 310: yeas 72, nays 26 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 355: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-05** 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 69
+- **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/0fdcc832-e04b-420d-9f60-2cfbbf28828d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+