---
type: "Bill"
title: "Plan commissions."
description: "Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Indiana SB 20 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ZONING AND PLANNING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Gaskill", "Rick Niemeyer", "Thomas Saunders"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/20"
source_hash: "29d8a4e7c2b98863e37d2290132f40c79aaef3e37329d68dfe4e1796fb5c6e0c"
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 20 (2020) — Plan commissions.

Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace.

## 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/SB0020/versions/SB0020.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0020/versions/SB0020.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 20 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 20 - Saunders - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Thomas Saunders — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Gaskill
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Senators Rogers and Kruse added as coauthors
- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 46, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Saunders
- **2020-01-27** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Amendment #1 (Goodin) motion withdrawn `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-25** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 47, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 53
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).