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+type: "Bill"
+title: "The practice of law."
+description: "Allows an Indiana resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 524"
+citation: "Indiana SB 524 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "COURTS; Attorneys"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cyndi Carrasco", "Eric Koch", "Jennifer Meltzer", "Mike Bohacek"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-16"
+last_action: "2025-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38ecb331-2ca2-4e39-a0b3-2ad560172b6c"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0524"
+source_hash: "0b47cd635ff8a47913ef61c13350220417acc7e52ddac09281c1615646c78323"
+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 524 (2025) — The practice of law.
+
+Allows an Indiana resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 524 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+- SB 524 - Meltzer - 3rd Reading — **89–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Jennifer Meltzer — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
+- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-16** Authored by Senator Carrasco
+- **2025-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-03** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-03** Senator Koch added as second author
+- **2025-02-03** Senator Bohacek added as third author
+- **2025-02-06** Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-17** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Davis
+- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Meltzer
+- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 211: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 315: yeas 89, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Public Law 43 `became-law`
+- **2025-04-09** 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/38ecb331-2ca2-4e39-a0b3-2ad560172b6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+