---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 182"
citation: "Indiana SB 182 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Engleman", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08290e0f-e0a9-4c23-82a6-0d0c9d5f63e2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/182"
source_hash: "c61070aa6e6f9dbc0c9c6156ea18431dc968058a3a9a889d162488b72b9aa825"
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 182 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 182 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 182 - Engleman - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Karen Engleman — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Grooms
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Engleman
- **2018-01-30** Cosponsors: Representatives Thompson and Goodin
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Representative Stemler added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 11

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08290e0f-e0a9-4c23-82a6-0d0c9d5f63e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).