republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-365.md

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Bill	Town of Griffith.	Changes the definition of "eligible municipality". Provides that if at least 2/3 of the voters voting in a special election held in the town of Griffith (town) on the public question of whether the territory of the town should be transferred to an adjacent township vote "yes" on the public question: (1) the legislative body of the eligible municipality may submit a petition to one or more adjacent townships within two years after the special election requesting that the adjacent township accept transfer of the territory of the town; (2) the legislative body of an adjacent township that receives a petition for the transfer of the town's territory may adopt a resolution accepting the transfer before the later of December 31 of the year in which the petition is received or the ninetieth day after the date that the petition is received; and (3) if no legislative body of an adjacent township to which a petition for transfer was submitted by the town accepts the transfer before July 1, 2020, the territory of the town is automatically transferred to the adjacent township with the greatest assessed value effective January 1, 2022.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 365	Indiana SB 365 (2020)	bill	CITIES AND TOWNS LAKE COUNTY TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS	enacted	Edmond Soliday James Buck Rick Niemeyer	5	24	2	2020-01-13	2020-03-21	openstates	ocd-bill/d29009d2-a425-428f-a3a4-34de2c272138	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/365	fd0f6102366766b5a57aa94be9ef9348dac2b7347d3766eb04770bc3e07904ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 365 (2020) — Town of Griffith.

Changes the definition of "eligible municipality". Provides that if at least 2/3 of the voters voting in a special election held in the town of Griffith (town) on the public question of whether the territory of the town should be transferred to an adjacent township vote "yes" on the public question: (1) the legislative body of the eligible municipality may submit a petition to one or more adjacent townships within two years after the special election requesting that the adjacent township accept transfer of the territory of the town; (2) the legislative body of an adjacent township that receives a petition for the transfer of the town's territory may adopt a resolution accepting the transfer before the later of December 31 of the year in which the petition is received or the ninetieth day after the date that the petition is received; and (3) if no legislative body of an adjacent township to which a petition for transfer was submitted by the town accepts the transfer before July 1, 2020, the territory of the town is automatically transferred to the adjacent township with the greatest assessed value effective January 1, 2022.

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
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 365 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — 40–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 365 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — 63–31 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
• James Buck — primary (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
• Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-13 Authored by Senator Niemeyer
• 2020-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-03 Senator Buck added as second author
• 2020-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 174: yeas 40, nays 9 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Soliday
• 2020-02-04 Cosponsor: Representative Aylesworth
• 2020-02-05 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-03-02 Amendment #1 (Porter) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2020-03-02 Amendment #3 (Porter) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2020-03-02 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 63, nays 31 reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-04 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-05 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 341: yeas 32, nays 8 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-21 Public Law 143

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d29009d2-a425-428f-a3a4-34de2c272138. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).