---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elkhart County courts."
description: "Provides that the board of county commissioners shall provide the circuit court clerk with an office at: (1) the county seat; or (2) in Elkhart County, any other place in the county as the board of county commissioners may provide; in a building provided for that purpose. Provides that each division of the circuit court or superior court of Elkhart County shall hold sessions at: (1) the courthouse of the county; or (2) any other place in the county as the board of county commissioners may provide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "Indiana SB 187 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS", "ELKHART COUNTY", "SUPERIOR COURTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Doug Miller", "Linda Rogers", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12528ca6-0dbd-47ad-a587-82101854f12d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/187"
source_hash: "16d0af809d07a112ec29456ce4e4fba75dd8139997e4fa308bf5fb0ec8a57bf3"
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 187 (2020) — Elkhart County courts.

Provides that the board of county commissioners shall provide the circuit court clerk with an office at: (1) the county seat; or (2) in Elkhart County, any other place in the county as the board of county commissioners may provide; in a building provided for that purpose. Provides that each division of the circuit court or superior court of Elkhart County shall hold sessions at: (1) the courthouse of the county; or (2) any other place in the county as the board of county commissioners may provide.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0187/versions/SB0187.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0187/versions/SB0187.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0187/versions/SB0187.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0187/versions/SB0187.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 187 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 187 - Miller - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Christy Stutzman — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-09** Senator Mishler added as second author
- **2020-01-09** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2020-01-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 18: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-14** House sponsor: Representative Miller D
- **2020-01-14** Cosponsor: Representative Stutzman
- **2020-01-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-15** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Representative Wesco added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-19** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-02-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-11** Public Law 7

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12528ca6-0dbd-47ad-a587-82101854f12d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).