republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-20.md

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Bill	Plan commissions.	Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 20	Indiana SB 20 (2020)	bill	ZONING AND PLANNING	enacted	Mike Gaskill Rick Niemeyer Thomas Saunders	4	22	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/20	29d8a4e7c2b98863e37d2290132f40c79aaef3e37329d68dfe4e1796fb5c6e0c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 20 (2020) — Plan commissions.

Allows a county agricultural extension educator (educator) serving on a county plan commission or an area plan commission who is not a resident of the county to continue to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission until: (1) October 1, 2020; or (2) the date set forth in a county legislative body ordinance that is after October 1, 2020, and not later than October 1, 2021. Provides that an educator who is not a resident of the county shall serve the county plan commission or area plan commission in a nonvoting advisory capacity. Provides that the county surveyor's designee must be a resident of the county to serve on the county plan commission or area plan commission. Requires a person appointed to a plan commission to fill a vacancy or to serve as an alternate member to meet the same requirements as the member the person is appointed to replace.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 20 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — 46–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 20 - Saunders - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
• Thomas Saunders — primary (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Gaskill
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Senator Niemeyer added as second author
• 2020-01-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-21 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-21 Senators Rogers and Kruse added as coauthors
• 2020-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 46, nays 1 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Saunders
• 2020-01-27 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-20 Amendment #1 (Goodin) motion withdrawn amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal
• 2020-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 93, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-03 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 47, nays 2 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-18 Public Law 53
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b87a7818-2a80-42a2-929f-cef43a686750. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).