---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning state offices and administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning state offices and administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 60"
citation: "Indiana SB 60 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "GOVERNOR", "LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR", "SECRETARY OF STATE", "STATE GOVERNMENT", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "Randall Head", "William Friend"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af7bf2c9-6892-4b13-9b06-f6055c3e7866"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/60"
source_hash: "aa0f1d99cd286e2dec78b70a9112c7d55f4eb186ce4c09c5dcb0f9ef5935f606"
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 60 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT 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/sb0060/versions/sb0060.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0060/versions/sb0060.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0060/versions/sb0060.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0060/versions/sb0060.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 60 - Friend - 3rd Reading — **69–29** (pass) · legislature
- SB 60 - Head - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- William Friend — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 59: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Friend
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedures `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #2 (Pryor) failed; Roll Call 360: yeas 28, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 368: yeas 69, nays 29 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** 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 447: yeas 45, nays 3 `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
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 226
- **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/af7bf2c9-6892-4b13-9b06-f6055c3e7866`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).