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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration and to make an appropriation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration and to make an appropriation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 242"
citation: "Indiana SB 242 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOUSING", "HOMELESS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Frizzell", "James Merritt", "Karen Tallian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6817acc6-0905-42c4-9e4b-2cbc81bee6b0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/242"
source_hash: "af8ea963ca90d8d1e2884e5c13e064d6b4bc338cf85db784c25044a6a7629bf2"
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 242 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state offices and administration and to make an appropriation.
## 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/2017/bills/sb0242/versions/sb0242.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0242/versions/sb0242.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0242/versions/sb0242.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0242/versions/sb0242.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 242 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — **473** (pass) · legislature
- SB 242 - Frizzell - 3rd Reading — **990** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David Frizzell — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Merritt
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Tallian added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 221: yeas 47, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Frizzell
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Clere
- **2017-02-28** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-13** Representative Taylor J added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Representative Harris added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 376: yeas 99, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 103
- **2017-04-21** 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/6817acc6-0905-42c4-9e4b-2cbc81bee6b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).