---
type: "Bill"
title: "Selection of poet laureate."
description: "Amends the membership of the poet laureate selection committee. Provides that the selection committee shall meet on a biennial basis or as needed. Provides that a person selected as poet laureate may serve one additional consecutive term. Amends the commission's payments for the poet laureate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 286"
citation: "Indiana SB 286 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE GOVERNMENT; State Emblems", "TASK FORCES AND COMMITTEES; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Greg Goode", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6e129a4-9fe9-4a3d-9d13-988061b59376"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0286"
source_hash: "bac6ee3b754f1f4414d43ca67cef6438f646e5e743a698ab6bfeb3be90e65f48"
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 286 (2024) — Selection of poet laureate.

Amends the membership of the poet laureate selection committee. Provides that the selection committee shall meet on a biennial basis or as needed. Provides that a person selected as poet laureate may serve one additional consecutive term. Amends the commission's payments for the poet laureate.

## 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/SB0286/SB0286.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0286/SB0286.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0286/SB0286.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0286/SB0286.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 286 - Goode - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 286 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **91–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Greg Goode — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Chris Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Tonya Pfaff — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-16** Authored by Senator Goode
- **2024-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Senators Alting, Becker, Niezgodski added as coauthors
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2024-01-30** Cosponsor: Representative Pfaff
- **2024-01-30** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Representatives Jordan and Campbell added as cosponsors
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 181: yeas 91, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 39 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6e129a4-9fe9-4a3d-9d13-988061b59376`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).