republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-346.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 346	Indiana SB 346 (2017)	bill	LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)	enacted	Edward Clere Jon Ford Ronald Grooms	5	26	2	2017-01-09	2017-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/346	8e36a269e067e9cdab7993f71252629475d8cbff3eda19988b3c2f4f828385d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 346 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning local government.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 346 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 346 - Clere - 3rd Reading — 98–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Edward Clere — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
• David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
• Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
• Karen Engleman — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Coauthored by Senators Ford and Becker
• 2017-01-09 Authored by Senator Grooms
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-01-26 Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-01-26 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-01-26 Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
• 2017-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-01-30 House sponsor: Representative Clere
• 2017-01-30 Cosponsors: Representatives Stemler and Engleman
• 2017-01-30 Senator Ford removed as coauthor
• 2017-01-30 Senator Ford added as second author
• 2017-01-31 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
• 2017-02-01 Referred to the House
• 2017-03-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 98, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-05 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-10 Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 437: yeas 49, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-13 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 114
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09e13d9c-106a-4784-9d43-bac423c0fbe9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).