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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 539"
+citation: "Indiana SB 539 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["TRADE REGULATIONS", "NOTARIES PUBLIC", "SECRETARY OF STATE"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Liz Brown", "Martin Carbaugh", "Rodric Bray"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78c0ef06-5877-4dbb-a299-0d9ce7515b2b"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/539"
+source_hash: "208f68c1cc53f4565182c027e4ff49e893e73d9392aba9b30f1e0dcdffef8ef5"
+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 539 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.
+
+## 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/sb0539/versions/sb0539.03.engs)
+2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.05.engh)
+3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.06.enrh)
+4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.01.intr)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.04.comh)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 539 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **44–3** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 539 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **85–4** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
+- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas Washburne — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Bray
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-31** Senator Brown L added as second author
+- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-07** Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-07** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 44, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
+- **2017-02-09** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
+- **2017-02-10** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-09** Representative Washburne removed as sponsor
+- **2017-03-09** Representative Carbaugh added as sponsor
+- **2017-03-09** Representative Washburne added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-20** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Amendment #2 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 85, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-30** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 43, nays 5 `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 128
+- **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/78c0ef06-5877-4dbb-a299-0d9ce7515b2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+