---
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 347"
citation: "Indiana SB 347 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BONDS", "Financial"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Bassler", "Greg Taylor", "Timothy Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f2b8288-3ebd-4f88-a8ce-cf49660aa21a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/347"
source_hash: "b3cb6e87e022df3506e130ca9df6626ec56a9e1441488fbf0dba1cda36810059"
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 347 (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/sb0347/versions/sb0347.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0347/versions/sb0347.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 347 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **88–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 347 - Bassler - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Taylor G
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Senator Taylor G removed as author
- **2018-01-29** Senator Bassler added as author
- **2018-01-29** Senator Taylor G added as second author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Brown T
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Porter
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 88, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 379: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 125
- **2018-03-16** 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/7f2b8288-3ebd-4f88-a8ce-cf49660aa21a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).