---
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: "2018"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "Indiana SB 197 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROPERTY", "TRANSPORTATION", "Department of", "ENGINEERS AND LAND SURVEYORS", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Statute of Limitations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Ober", "Greg Walker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3618e0b7-18d4-40df-96a6-0c7fd0e63f9b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/197"
source_hash: "5def63a913281fcfc30b12cc4668b0ec7805d018bd1a4005df6725f2d2b570f4"
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 197 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0197/versions/sb0197.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0197/versions/sb0197.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0197/versions/sb0197.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0197/versions/sb0197.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0197/versions/sb0197.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 197 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 197 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- David Ober — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)
- William Friend — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Morris and Friend
- **2018-01-23** Senator Walker added as second author
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 280: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-05** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Doriot and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Walker, Lanane and Buck
- **2018-03-07** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Ober and Bauer
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Bartels and Hatfield
- **2018-03-08** Dissent rescinded
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-12** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 375: yeas 44, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 159
- **2018-03-21** 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/3618e0b7-18d4-40df-96a6-0c7fd0e63f9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).