---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 455"
citation: "Indiana SB 455 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSESSORS", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "MOBILE HOMES AND MOBILE HOME PARKS", "PROPERTY TAXES", "Assessments", "Notices", "and Penalties", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt Hershman", "Karen Engleman", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6edf2b5-2b2e-4d29-aab5-8d00cfa48224"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/455"
source_hash: "59ee74c60bca5d64a5c4393443fc0fa209e17cab4f95f444a9eb1d893a8086e0"
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 455 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0455/versions/sb0455.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0455/versions/sb0455.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0455/versions/sb0455.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0455/versions/sb0455.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0455/versions/sb0455.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 455 - Engleman - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 455 - Head - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Brandt Hershman — primary (person)
- Karen Engleman — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Hershman added as second author
- **2017-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 132: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Engleman
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 356: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2017-04-12** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Hershman, Stoops and Perfect
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Engleman and Candelaria Reardon
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Cherry, Culver, Saunders and Harris
- **2017-04-12** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 530: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 502: yeas 49, nays 1
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 235
- **2017-04-28** 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/c6edf2b5-2b2e-4d29-aab5-8d00cfa48224`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).