---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conservancy district board meetings."
description: "Amends the open door law to allow members of a conservancy district board of directors to attend meetings electronically."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 68"
citation: "Indiana SB 68 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSERVATION; CONSERVANCY DISTRICTS", "OPEN DOOR LAW", "PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Jordan", "Linda Rogers", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42e7052f-53f7-4ba1-a372-46936843cad1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/68"
source_hash: "147ce5fd7bbcd78328cc93c9efb740d0af72fe523dc308b3afa9ce3e77bc0b87"
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 68 (2021) — Conservancy district board meetings.

Amends the open door law to allow members of a conservancy district board of directors to attend meetings electronically.

## 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/SB0068/versions/SB0068.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0068/versions/SB0068.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0068/versions/SB0068.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0068/versions/SB0068.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 68 - Jordan - 3rd Reading — **86–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack Jordan — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Senator Donato
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** House sponsor: Representative Jordan
- **2021-02-02** Cosponsor: Representative Pressel
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 312: yeas 86, nays 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-30** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2021-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-23** Public Law 107
- **2021-04-23** 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/42e7052f-53f7-4ba1-a372-46936843cad1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).