---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 392"
citation: "Indiana SB 392 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harold Slager", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1509f89c-04ad-4657-8a79-7eeb489d2192"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/392"
source_hash: "ed7cc6758ff8071d33d84c46746150c946c8037879a168dcdd512824a75ecbdf"
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 392 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0392/versions/sb0392.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0392/versions/sb0392.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0392/versions/sb0392.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0392/versions/sb0392.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0392/versions/sb0392.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 392 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 392 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Niemeyer
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 72: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2018-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Aylesworth
- **2018-01-25** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Amendment #1 (Clere) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Slager and Pryor
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Clere, Leonard and Wright
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Niemeyer and Breaux
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Bohacek and Tallian
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 410: yeas 93, nays 3
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 416: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 171
- **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/1509f89c-04ad-4657-8a79-7eeb489d2192`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).