---
type: "Bill"
title: "Campground matters."
description: "Allows a campground owner to ask an individual to leave a campground in certain instances. Specifies that an individual who remains on or returns to a campground after having been asked to leave the campground commits criminal trespass. Provides that a guest who is asked to leave a campground is entitled to a refund of any unused portion of prepaid fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "Indiana SB 17 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability", "PARKS AND CAMPGROUNDS", "PROPERTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Linda Rogers", "Mike Bohacek", "Mike Speedy"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a67002eb-dbed-4b6e-9eb1-0ceb04debef6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/17"
source_hash: "4d1fb0b232d715ad0e96f2c3d78e7ac6ce39e77fa198c3268df362e818dcf0b4"
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 17 (2021) — Campground matters.

Allows a campground owner to ask an individual to leave a campground in certain instances. Specifies that an individual who remains on or returns to a campground after having been asked to leave the campground commits criminal trespass. Provides that a guest who is asked to leave a campground is entitled to a refund of any unused portion of prepaid fees.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0017/versions/SB0017.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0017/versions/SB0017.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0017/versions/SB0017.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0017/versions/SB0017.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0017/versions/SB0017.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 17 - Speedy - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Mike Speedy — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2021-02-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Amendment #1 (Doriot) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 46, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Speedy
- **2021-02-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Miller and Cook
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 325: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-14** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-15** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 444: yeas 38, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-23** Public Law 106

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a67002eb-dbed-4b6e-9eb1-0ceb04debef6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).