---
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 386"
citation: "Indiana SB 386 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODWAYS", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "Redevelopment and Renovation of Urban Areas", "PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; PUBLIC PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Ed Charbonneau", "Gregory Porter", "John Ruckelshaus"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78c8bd0d-360d-47fd-8474-27935e21a6db"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/386"
source_hash: "a713c64f5af87c8d332dac61db91591d9556e650c4ac22276b5c38a0cce1e809"
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 386 (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/sb0386/versions/sb0386.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0386/versions/sb0386.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 386 - Porter - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 386 - Ruckelshaus - 3rd Reading — **39–8** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — primary (person)
- John Ruckelshaus — primary (person)
- David Frizzell — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Justin Moed — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Ruckelshaus
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Senator Niezgodski added as third author
- **2018-01-29** 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`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 185: yeas 39, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Huston
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Moed, Frizzell and Porter
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Representative Huston removed as sponsor
- **2018-02-19** Representative Porter added as sponsor
- **2018-02-19** Representative Porter removed as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Representative Huston added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 61

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78c8bd0d-360d-47fd-8474-27935e21a6db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).