---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "Indiana SB 323 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (other than Livestock)", "CELL PHONES", "CIVIL ACTIONS generally", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "Telephone", "Television", "Radio", "and Internet"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Michael Delph", "Rodric Bray", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e51b7b48-baa2-4e58-ac14-666da13d0f69"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/323"
source_hash: "bddc73c10f263bd1f30cfab50836e75e90070f0f9967d22e7abd50d0ccfb8dc4"
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 323 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning civil procedure.

## 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/sb0323/versions/sb0323.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0323/versions/sb0323.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0323/versions/sb0323.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0323/versions/sb0323.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 323 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 323 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Randall Head — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Head added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Senator Bray added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Senator Lanane added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Delph added as third author
- **2017-02-23** Senators Zakas, Young M, Glick, Randolph, Koch, Freeman added as coauthors
- **2017-02-23** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Hamilton
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Lehman added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 266: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 350: yeas 35, nays 12 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Becker added as coauthor
- **2017-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 112
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e51b7b48-baa2-4e58-ac14-666da13d0f69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).