---
type: "Bill"
title: "Statutes applicable to Lake and St. Joseph counties."
description: "Adds references to Lake County and St. Joseph County that were removed in P.L.278-2019. Specifies provisions for St. Joseph County with regard to division of the county into districts. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 35"
citation: "Indiana SB 35 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAKE COUNTY", "ST. JOSEPH COUNTY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Harold Slager", "Linda Rogers", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4fc96ee3-e95c-49f9-99de-5f4de368adb0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/35"
source_hash: "dabdf5a748b33b5b85f3d7e6d81f7785da7f4e08be567650a3ef187312c3e4c4"
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 35 (2021) — Statutes applicable to Lake and St. Joseph counties.

Adds references to Lake County and St. Joseph County that were removed in P.L.278-2019. Specifies provisions for St. Joseph County with regard to division of the county into districts. 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/SB0035/versions/SB0035.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 35 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Jake Teshka — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-11** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2021-01-25** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2021-01-25** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2021-01-26** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #2 (Mishler) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 38: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** House sponsor: Representative Slager
- **2021-02-02** Cosponsor: Representative Teshka J
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the House
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 286: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 22
- **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/4fc96ee3-e95c-49f9-99de-5f4de368adb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).