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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Plan commissions."
+description: "Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 20"
+citation: "Indiana SB 20 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ZONING AND PLANNING"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mike Gaskill", "Rick Niemeyer", "Thomas Saunders"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/20"
+source_hash: "29d8a4e7c2b98863e37d2290132f40c79aaef3e37329d68dfe4e1796fb5c6e0c"
+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 20 (2020) — Plan commissions.
+
+Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace.
+
+## 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/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.02.COMS)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.03.COMH)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 20 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
+- SB 20 - Saunders - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
+- Thomas Saunders — primary (person)
+- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Gaskill
+- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-09** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
+- **2020-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-21** Senators Rogers and Kruse added as coauthors
+- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 46, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Saunders
+- **2020-01-27** Referred to the House
+- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-20** Amendment #1 (Goodin) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
+- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
+- **2020-03-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 47, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2020-03-18** Public Law 53
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+