---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 558"
citation: "Indiana SB 558 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LANDLORDS AND TENANTS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "Sean Eberhart", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/115c0b17-a9e1-4364-a982-29961d9d46f3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/558"
source_hash: "15e22d9fff7990b9869d8854d01a8279e814fa707f52fbdb8bcfd5f7aca5aebf"
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 558 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning property.

## 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/sb0558/versions/sb0558.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0558/versions/sb0558.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0558/versions/sb0558.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0558/versions/sb0558.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0558/versions/sb0558.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0558/versions/sb0558.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 558 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — **77–20** (pass) · legislature
- SB 558 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **29–19** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2017-02-13** Amendment #3 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-13** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-13** Amendment #2 (Stoops) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 29, nays 19 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** House sponsor: Representative Eberhart
- **2017-02-17** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Representative Speedy added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Representative Austin added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #2 (Eberhart) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #1 (Eberhart) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #4 (DeLaney) motion withdrawn voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-05** Amendment #3 (DeLaney) motion withdrawn voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 421: yeas 77, nays 20 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 459: yeas 28, nays 20 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 266
- **2017-05-02** 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/115c0b17-a9e1-4364-a982-29961d9d46f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).