---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 185"
citation: "Indiana SB 185 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Academy and Training", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Crider", "Michael Delph", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8eeaf4-c567-4a35-93f4-d65d49c50ae6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/185"
source_hash: "cb0cf210570c150e778caee45462882c65331dc33e6e925c07f1bae18741aaf7"
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 185 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## 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/2017/bills/sb0185/versions/sb0185.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0185/versions/sb0185.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0185/versions/sb0185.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0185/versions/sb0185.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0185/versions/sb0185.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 185 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 185 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- James Baird — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Long
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-01-12** Senator Long removed as author
- **2017-01-12** Senator Crider added as author
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Delph added as second author
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 37: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Frye R
- **2017-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-07** Representatives Baird, Judy, Klinker added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 250: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-13** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-03-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Public Law 4
- **2017-03-29** 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/5a8eeaf4-c567-4a35-93f4-d65d49c50ae6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).