---
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 310"
citation: "Indiana SB 310 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "PROPERTY TAXES", "Credits and Deductions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Heath VanNatter", "Timothy Lanane", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8647f10-5f68-4f20-839f-171557fe2cf8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/310"
source_hash: "e58f96f2571687a6c7beee6e2705a91eaa8ced2801676d9c558c0d5b69b196fc"
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 310 (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/sb0310/versions/sb0310.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0310/versions/sb0310.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0310/versions/sb0310.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0310/versions/sb0310.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0310/versions/sb0310.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0310/versions/sb0310.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 310 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 310 - Hershman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Justin Moed — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Hershman
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Senator Holdman added as second author
- **2017-01-18** Senator Lanane added as third author
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Amendment #2 (Hershman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 130: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
- **2017-02-16** Cosponsor: Representative Brown, T.
- **2017-02-17** 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 Moed added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #1 (Shackleford) prevailed; Roll Call 314: yeas 93, nays 1 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 338: yeas 88, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 450: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 110
- **2017-04-21** 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/b8647f10-5f68-4f20-839f-171557fe2cf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).