---
type: "Bill"
title: "Powers of guardian after death."
description: "Authorizes certain guardians to make certain arrangements and control the disposition of a decedent's body subsequent to the death of a protected person. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 276"
citation: "Indiana SB 276 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH", "GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Young", "Susan Glick", "Timothy Lanane"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e484fdbd-7e16-4815-ad0f-96aa294c8820"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/276"
source_hash: "4fbe6f923f8f745d2e6242e300aa2c85a4e3da407c6ac04881b051bf7bb1fa65"
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 276 (2021) — Powers of guardian after death.

Authorizes certain guardians to make certain arrangements and control the disposition of a decedent's body subsequent to the death of a protected person. Makes conforming amendments.

## 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/SB0276/versions/SB0276.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0276/versions/SB0276.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0276/versions/SB0276.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0276/versions/SB0276.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0276/versions/SB0276.02.COMS)

## Sponsors

- John Young — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Authored by Senator Lanane
- **2021-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Amendment #2 (Lanane) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-02-22** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2021-02-22** Cosponsors: Representatives Hatfield and Cook
- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 46, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-03-23** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e484fdbd-7e16-4815-ad0f-96aa294c8820`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).