---
type: "Bill"
title: "Probate code study commission."
description: "Provides that the chief justice of the supreme court, or the chief justice's designee, is a nonvoting member of the probate code study commission (commission). Provides that eight affirmative votes are required for the commission to take final action."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 193"
citation: "Indiana SB 193 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies", "STUDY COMMITTEES", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Jack Sandlin", "John Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/402784a7-a982-4d06-87d3-8daa6a1bd972"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/193"
source_hash: "2385eef17a560cc13bae0af679bbc56bc528c0c1a72a58accef6b3ae37c9f718"
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 193 (2022) — Probate code study commission.

Provides that the chief justice of the supreme court, or the chief justice's designee, is a nonvoting member of the probate code study commission (commission). Provides that eight affirmative votes are required for the commission to take final action.

## 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/SB0193/versions/SB0193.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0193/versions/SB0193.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0193/versions/SB0193.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0193/versions/SB0193.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 193 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **90–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Authored by Senators Sandlin and Freeman
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Senator Koch added as third author
- **2022-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2022-01-28** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 189: yeas 90, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-02-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-18** Public Law 154

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/402784a7-a982-4d06-87d3-8daa6a1bd972`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).