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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sale of tax delinquent real property."
+description: "Defines the term \"severed interest\" as an improvement,"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 296"
+citation: "Indiana SB 296 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["INHERITANCE AND ESTATE TAXES", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC RECORDS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch", "Liz Brown", "Rodney Pol"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-04-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/000955aa-fa0e-4895-a591-2397199d6ca0"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/296"
+source_hash: "eb4374c70ca08e6672918d872cae74afe9a534427f97a594fcc0862f7d296932"
+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 296 (2023) — Sale of tax delinquent real property.
+
+Defines the term "severed interest" as an improvement,
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 296 - Jeter C - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Koch
+- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-20** Senator Brown L added as second author
+- **2023-02-20** Senator Pol added as third author
+- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 140: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
+- **2023-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
+- **2023-02-22** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 266: yeas 88, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-16** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-03-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-05** Public Law 7 `became-law`
+- **2023-04-05** 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/000955aa-fa0e-4895-a591-2397199d6ca0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+