---
type: "Bill"
title: "Delaware circuit courts."
description: "Removes the sixth circuit court in Delaware County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 152"
citation: "Indiana SB 152 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS", "DELAWARE COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Prescott", "Liz Brown", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3798d1f-8173-4f67-8514-54fd18a13a0e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/152"
source_hash: "b2c6eee5200ad4b7918f04697e7e275c86ec8e2d78657cc20e571fdb90092be5"
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 152 (2021) — Delaware circuit courts.

Removes the sixth circuit court in Delaware County.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0152/versions/SB0152.05.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0152/versions/SB0152.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0152/versions/SB0152.04.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0152/versions/SB0152.02.COMS)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0152/versions/SB0152.03.COMS)

## Sponsors

- J.D. Prescott — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- John Young — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Judiciary `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Senator Bray removed as author
- **2021-02-08** Senator Gaskill added as author
- **2021-02-16** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2021-02-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2021-02-23** Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 175: yeas 35, nays 13 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Representative Young J added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Representative Young J added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-22** Representative McNamara removed as sponsor
- **2021-03-22** Representative Prescott added as sponsor
- **2021-03-22** Representatives Prescott and Young J removed as cosponsors
- **2021-03-22** Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 290: yeas 67, nays 27 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 25
- **2021-04-08** 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/e3798d1f-8173-4f67-8514-54fd18a13a0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).