---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sale of tax delinquent real property."
description: "Defines the term \"severed interest\" as an improvement,"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 296"
citation: "Indiana SB 296 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INHERITANCE AND ESTATE TAXES", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC RECORDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch", "Liz Brown", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/000955aa-fa0e-4895-a591-2397199d6ca0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/296"
source_hash: "eb4374c70ca08e6672918d872cae74afe9a534427f97a594fcc0862f7d296932"
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 296 (2023) — Sale of tax delinquent real property.

Defines the term "severed interest" as an improvement,

## 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/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0296/versions/SB0296.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 296 - Jeter C - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2023-02-20** Senator Pol added as third author
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 140: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
- **2023-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 266: yeas 88, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Public Law 7 `became-law`
- **2023-04-05** 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/000955aa-fa0e-4895-a591-2397199d6ca0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).