---
type: "Bill"
title: "Town fiscal management."
description: "Changes the population point that distinguishes a second class city from a third class city from 35,000 to 34,000. Authorizes a town with a population of more than 34,000 to create the office of town controller, appointed by the town legislative body."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "Indiana SB 163 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "John Crane", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07c8d6fd-1e0d-4838-88be-29801d188ad3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/163"
source_hash: "236d2433b63b503683869b7a2d7e63978e8577e72d3629a795bcdfa7fb3bffc1"
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 163 (2022) — Town fiscal management.

Changes the population point that distinguishes a second class city from a third class city from 35,000 to 34,000. Authorizes a town with a population of more than 34,000 to create the office of town controller, appointed by the town legislative body.

## 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/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.05.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0163/versions/SB0163.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 163 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **41–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Young M
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 41, nays 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** Senator Crane added as second author
- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-21** Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 320: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 56

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07c8d6fd-1e0d-4838-88be-29801d188ad3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).