---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small estates."
description: "Increases the value of estates that may be distributed via affidavit from $50,000 to $100,000. Increases the threshold for summary procedures for unsupervised estates from $50,000 to $100,000. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the probate code study commission.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 67"
citation: "Indiana SB 67 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROBATE COURTS AND PROCEEDINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward DeLaney", "Michael Young", "Timothy Lanane"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ddeb200-2c55-4246-8d99-c258ccb014cb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/67"
source_hash: "d1400ad0e6eb6ee18e85f9afa86d587fddb2b3a7fc336aa3889432f570f64392"
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 67 (2022) — Small estates.

Increases the value of estates that may be distributed via affidavit from $50,000 to $100,000. Increases the threshold for summary procedures for unsupervised estates from $50,000 to $100,000. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the probate code study commission.)

## 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/2022/bills/SB0067/versions/SB0067.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0067/versions/SB0067.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0067/versions/SB0067.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0067/versions/SB0067.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 67 - DeLaney - 3rd Reading — **83–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward DeLaney — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jerry Torr — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Lanane
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
- **2022-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 23: yeas 43, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2022-01-20** Cosponsor: Representative DeLaney
- **2022-01-20** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2022-01-20** Senators Freeman and Buck added as coauthors
- **2022-01-20** Senator Pol added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Representative Young J removed as sponsor
- **2022-02-22** Representative DeLaney added as sponsor
- **2022-02-22** Representative DeLaney removed as cosponsor
- **2022-02-22** Representative Torr added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 83, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-18** Public Law 151

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ddeb200-2c55-4246-8d99-c258ccb014cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).