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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Uniform electronic legal material act."
+description: "Implements the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which establishes a process for certain legal materials stored electronically to be: (1) designated as official; (2) authenticated; (3) preserved; and (4) made available to the public."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 131"
+citation: "Indiana SB 131 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; INDIANA REGISTER", "ATTORNEY GENERAL", "COURT OF APPEALS", "INDIANA CODE", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS", "UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "John Young", "Liz Brown", "Michael Young"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-04"
+last_action: "2022-03-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b832ec-8b87-4a52-81bd-a219fcd4a5b4"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/131"
+source_hash: "44493e86890b581156231b5d819f150228ec085f53d593353e2d558c417fc6b5"
+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 131 (2022) — Uniform electronic legal material act.
+
+Implements the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which establishes a process for certain legal materials stored electronically to be: (1) designated as official; (2) authenticated; (3) preserved; and (4) made available to the public.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.03.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.05.ENRH)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.01.INTR)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.04.COMH)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 131 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- John Young — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Freeman
+- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-04** Senator Koch added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-18** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
+- **2022-01-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Young J
+- **2022-01-20** Senator Young M added as second author
+- **2022-01-20** Senator Brown L added as third author
+- **2022-01-21** Referred to the House
+- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-16** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2022-02-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-07** Public Law 11
+- **2022-03-07** 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/05b832ec-8b87-4a52-81bd-a219fcd4a5b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+