---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 400"
citation: "Indiana SB 400 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Ben Smaltz", "Ron Alting"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fdcc832-e04b-420d-9f60-2cfbbf28828d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/400"
source_hash: "d061a703bc233a9cbb5cacd1eabc2831547113d1e24540be0347a627eafd1231"
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 400 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration.

## 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/sb0400/versions/sb0400.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0400/versions/sb0400.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 400 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 400 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **72–26** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
- Ron Alting — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Alting added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 161: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `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 310: yeas 72, nays 26 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Representative GiaQuinta added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** 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 355: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** 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 69
- **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/0fdcc832-e04b-420d-9f60-2cfbbf28828d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).