---
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 505"
citation: "Indiana SB 505 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["RECORDERS", "PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Dennis Kruse", "Dennis Zent", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18771026-0431-4075-b3e9-4f301c77519a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/505"
source_hash: "cf010b293585e13d0f3b4b04be21a9b27ef3aed6789fb1cefa3432177a1f72d6"
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 505 (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/sb0505/versions/sb0505.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0505/versions/sb0505.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0505/versions/sb0505.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0505/versions/sb0505.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0505/versions/sb0505.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0505/versions/sb0505.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 505 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 505 - Zent - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Dennis Zent — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Moed — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy Richardson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #3 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #4 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Kruse added as third author
- **2017-02-27** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 209: yeas 45, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Zent
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsors: Representatives Moed, Steuerwald and Richardson
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** 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 (Zent) 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 359: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 457: yeas 39, nays 9 `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 127
- **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/18771026-0431-4075-b3e9-4f301c77519a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).