---
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 348"
citation: "Indiana SB 348 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "Campaign Activities", "Contributions", "and Expenditures", "ELECTIONS generally", "ELECTIONS", "Political Parties", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "John Ruckelshaus", "Mike Speedy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dad17d1a-ea8e-475a-96ac-df2f69c485d0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/348"
source_hash: "eb97149424839a9c03e85e66f51eaa618d5609f9868af3bd52c7410f85c94a4c"
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 348 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0348/versions/sb0348.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0348/versions/sb0348.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0348/versions/sb0348.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0348/versions/sb0348.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 348 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **45–5** (pass) · legislature
- SB 348 - Speedy - 3rd Reading — **62–33** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Sandlin J added as third author
- **2017-01-26** Senator Ruckelshaus added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 45, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Speedy
- **2017-02-28** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Speedy) motion withdrawn voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 415: yeas 62, nays 33 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 462: yeas 28, nays 11 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 211
- **2017-04-27** 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/dad17d1a-ea8e-475a-96ac-df2f69c485d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).