---
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 240"
citation: "Indiana SB 240 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES", "LANDLORDS AND TENANTS", "ANIMALS (other than Livestock)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Mark Messmer", "Sally Siegrist"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/659ab7db-edbf-406e-b708-621fa3b3c8e5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/240"
source_hash: "3b675e91f3454eb5d6f9e0036224ea553b86d2a3271c92bd35065429e0f5668b"
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 240 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0240/versions/sb0240.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 240 - Siegrist - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 240 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **38–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Sally Siegrist — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Senator Messmer added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #2 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 172: yeas 38, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Siegrist
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Clere
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #1 (Washburne) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Representative Miller added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 284: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 359: yeas 42, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 162
- **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/659ab7db-edbf-406e-b708-621fa3b3c8e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).