---
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 346"
citation: "Indiana SB 346 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE", "DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jon Ford", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/346"
source_hash: "8e36a269e067e9cdab7993f71252629475d8cbff3eda19988b3c2f4f828385d0"
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 346 (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/sb0346/versions/sb0346.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0346/versions/sb0346.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 346 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 346 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Coauthored by Senators Ford and Becker
- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2017-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Stemler and Engleman
- **2017-01-30** Senator Ford removed as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Senator Ford added as second author
- **2017-01-31** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 437: yeas 49, 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 114
- **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/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).