---
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 316"
citation: "Indiana SB 316 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LIENS AND ENCUMBRANCES", "PROPERTY", "UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph Zakas", "Rodric Bray", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de1167b1-a406-4a14-a87c-4f80eeefb196"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/316"
source_hash: "9ef8f977461bf064664a039bf22cfde7c5e1ae77c79d06f14629c4dc2c092a13"
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 316 (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/sb0316/versions/sb0316.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0316/versions/sb0316.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0316/versions/sb0316.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0316/versions/sb0316.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0316/versions/sb0316.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 316 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 316 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Zakas added as second author
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
- **2017-01-31** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 306: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** 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 61
- **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/de1167b1-a406-4a14-a87c-4f80eeefb196`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).