---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 121"
citation: "Indiana SB 121 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dea040c7-850c-43eb-b07e-f6c81bd3f42c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/121"
source_hash: "1f088d760f74c9a14b48ac1072d38eff3c606b7c710b757c47cac425e517843e"
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 121 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property.

## 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/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.03.engs)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.02.coms)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0121/versions/sb0121.05.comh)

## Votes

- SB 121 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 121 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2017-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-01-31** Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
- **2017-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 331: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 51
- **2017-04-13** 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/dea040c7-850c-43eb-b07e-f6c81bd3f42c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).