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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Alcohol matters."
+description: "Allows a city or town to designate an outdoor location as a refreshment area with the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission). Provides that if a refreshment area is approved, the commission designates retailer permittees that may sell alcoholic beverages for consumption within the refreshment area. Prohibits a refreshment area from being located near a school or church unless the school or church does not object. Allows a minor to be within the refreshment area. Adds language providing that a person entering a licensed premises within a refreshment area with an alcoholic beverage is not subject to criminal penalties. Makes it a Class C infraction for a participating retailer permittee or vendor to sell a person more than two alcoholic beverages at a time or an open container of an alcoholic beverage that exceeds the volume limitations. Allows a restaurant to sell or dispense alcoholic beverages from a bar located on the licensed premises that opens to an outside patio or terrace that is contiguous to the main building."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 20"
+citation: "Indiana SB 20 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Crimes and Offenses", "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Licenses", "Permits", "and Taxes", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Linda Rogers", "Liz Brown", "Matt Lehman"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-09"
+last_action: "2023-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e13e6b8-bea2-4e62-a006-7e55ea47ab23"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/20"
+source_hash: "c8d926864b0e8a963ae7eb25d7ea7a1251a41c5d6437f26aff89c98874747f36"
+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 (2023) — Alcohol matters.
+
+Allows a city or town to designate an outdoor location as a refreshment area with the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission). Provides that if a refreshment area is approved, the commission designates retailer permittees that may sell alcoholic beverages for consumption within the refreshment area. Prohibits a refreshment area from being located near a school or church unless the school or church does not object. Allows a minor to be within the refreshment area. Adds language providing that a person entering a licensed premises within a refreshment area with an alcoholic beverage is not subject to criminal penalties. Makes it a Class C infraction for a participating retailer permittee or vendor to sell a person more than two alcoholic beverages at a time or an open container of an alcoholic beverage that exceeds the volume limitations. Allows a restaurant to sell or dispense alcoholic beverages from a bar located on the licensed premises that opens to an outside patio or terrace that is contiguous to the main building.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.05.ENGH)
+2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.03.ENGS)
+3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.06.ENRH)
+4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.01.INTR)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.04.COMH)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 20 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **79–19** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Jennifer Meltzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)
+- Randy Lyness — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Brown L
+- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** Senator Rogers added as second author
+- **2023-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-06** Senator Perfect added as third author
+- **2023-02-07** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-07** Amendment #2 (Perfect) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-07** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 91: yeas 39, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
+- **2023-02-09** Cosponsors: Representatives GiaQuinta and Miller K
+- **2023-02-09** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-09** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-10** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-13** Representative Meltzer J added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-14** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2023-03-14** Representative Lyness added as cosponsor
+- **2023-04-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-06** Amendment #2 (Lehman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-04-06** Amendment #1 (Moed) failed; Roll Call 364: yeas 33, nays 58 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2023-04-06** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 381: yeas 79, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-12** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-12** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-13** Senate dissented from House amendments
+- **2023-04-14** House conferees appointed: Manning and Moed
+- **2023-04-14** House advisors appointed: Lehman, Bartels, Morris, GiaQuinta and Miller K
+- **2023-04-18** Senate conferees appointed: Brown L and Niezgodski
+- **2023-04-18** Senate advisors appointed: Melton and Perfect
+- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
+- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
+- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 530: yeas 92, nays 3
+- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 501: yeas 37, nays 11
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-04** Public Law 167 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e13e6b8-bea2-4e62-a006-7e55ea47ab23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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