---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 423"
citation: "Indiana SB 423 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["IMMIGRATION", "Federal", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Delph", "Michael Young", "Woody Burton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8b6569f-95ec-429e-88c9-9a0b95857288"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/423"
source_hash: "a107cc8d1f1bccf2e82e3a786c097614a1d432d4a68c1a1f08f643b64183192e"
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 423 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0423/versions/sb0423.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0423/versions/sb0423.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0423/versions/sb0423.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0423/versions/sb0423.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0423/versions/sb0423.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 423 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **35–15** (pass) · legislature
- SB 423 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **72–26** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Michael Delph — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Woody Burton — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- James Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senators Young M and Delph
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Sandlin) prevailed; Roll Call 191: yeas 39, nays 10 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senators Freeman, Smith J, Koch added as coauthors
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 233: yeas 35, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Burton
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 380: yeas 72, nays 26 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 454: yeas 38, nays 10 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-05-02** Public Law 265
- **2017-05-02** 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/b8b6569f-95ec-429e-88c9-9a0b95857288`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).