---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal riverfront development district permits."
description: "Specifies that the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue restaurant permits for a municipal riverfront development district established by a town."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Indiana SB 20 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Alcohol and Tobacco Commission (ATC)", "ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO; Licenses and Permits", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "NATURAL RESOURCES; Rivers", "Streams", "and Waterways"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Matt Lehman", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55d1288b-83dd-4171-badb-7e699f84654e"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0020"
source_hash: "5bd26c309ca2f4f99f1a8359eeee68e0a1c768870d263b59b66c1faa7ef420c6"
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 20 (2024) — Municipal riverfront development district permits.

Specifies that the alcohol and tobacco commission may issue restaurant permits for a municipal riverfront development district established by a town.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0020/SB0020.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0020/SB0020.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0020/SB0020.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0020/SB0020.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 20 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **89–2** (pass) · lower
- SB 20 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Alex Zimmerman — cosponsor (person)
- Chuck Moseley — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Rita Fleming — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Holdman
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Senator Zay added as second author
- **2024-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2024-01-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** Representative Moseley added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** Representative Fleming added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 158: yeas 89, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Representative Zimmerman added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-20** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-12** Public Law 73 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55d1288b-83dd-4171-badb-7e699f84654e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).