---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "Indiana SB 152 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY", "PROPERTY", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "Redevelopment and Renovation of Urban Areas", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Zent", "James Merritt", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0129d21-6d96-4fe4-a415-8014cbfa70ab"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/152"
source_hash: "4ba4e0d21ce2ecd0060d252a9674e762de47a4307b8e8edc8ef95fcaac3280bb"
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 152 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

## 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/sb0152/versions/sb0152.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0152/versions/sb0152.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 152 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 152 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **92–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2017-01-30** Senator Head added as second author
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Representative Harris added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Miller added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 92, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** 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 52
- **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/c0129d21-6d96-4fe4-a415-8014cbfa70ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).