---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 539"
citation: "Indiana SB 539 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TRADE REGULATIONS", "NOTARIES PUBLIC", "SECRETARY OF STATE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liz Brown", "Martin Carbaugh", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78c0ef06-5877-4dbb-a299-0d9ce7515b2b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/539"
source_hash: "208f68c1cc53f4565182c027e4ff49e893e73d9392aba9b30f1e0dcdffef8ef5"
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 539 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning courts and court officers.

## 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/sb0539/versions/sb0539.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0539/versions/sb0539.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 539 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **44–3** (pass) · legislature
- SB 539 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **85–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Washburne — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-07** Amendment #1 (Bray) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-07** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 44, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
- **2017-02-09** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-02-10** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Representative Washburne removed as sponsor
- **2017-03-09** Representative Carbaugh added as sponsor
- **2017-03-09** Representative Washburne added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Amendment #2 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 343: yeas 85, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-30** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 43, nays 5 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 128
- **2017-04-21** 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/78c0ef06-5877-4dbb-a299-0d9ce7515b2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).