---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 42"
citation: "Indiana SB 42 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS generally", "ATTORNEYS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jeff Raatz", "Michael Young", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0056072-12c3-4820-b5fb-2421eba71e9a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/42"
source_hash: "43c54ce9f8d2b37fa34142b9ae12c529a1963f821150332ea93de6130851048a"
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 42 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/sb0042/versions/sb0042.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0042/versions/sb0042.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0042/versions/sb0042.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0042/versions/sb0042.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 42 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 42 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Lanane — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Young, M. added as second author
- **2017-01-17** Senators Randolph, Zakas, Glick, Lanane added as coauthors
- **2017-01-17** Senator Koch added as coauthor
- **2017-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2017-01-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Stemler and Engleman
- **2017-01-24** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2017-01-27** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** 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 39
- **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/a0056072-12c3-4820-b5fb-2421eba71e9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).