republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-78.md

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Bill	Shovel ready site development center.	Defines "office" as the office of community and rural affairs for purposes of the law governing the shovel ready site development center (center). Provides that the office shall, in cooperation with the Indiana economic development corporation and political subdivisions, administer the center to enable political subdivisions to obtain permits to create sites that are ready for economic development. Provides that the office shall serve as the certifying body for acceptance into the program and determine the criteria to be used to certify sites.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 78	Indiana SB 78 (2020)	bill	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INDIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally RURAL PROGRAMS NON-AGRICULTURAL	enacted	Erin Houchin Ethan Manning Mark Messmer	4	20	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/997eb382-5c50-44d7-bfec-558017f8ab78	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/78	cb29272b732e2e583f471365be7ff1b5dee958f57e2fc15fcebec92d7e708d1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 78 (2020) — Shovel ready site development center.

Defines "office" as the office of community and rural affairs for purposes of the law governing the shovel ready site development center (center). Provides that the office shall, in cooperation with the Indiana economic development corporation and political subdivisions, administer the center to enable political subdivisions to obtain permits to create sites that are ready for economic development. Provides that the office shall serve as the certifying body for acceptance into the program and determine the criteria to be used to certify sites.

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 78 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 78 - Manning - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Erin Houchin — primary (person)
• Ethan Manning — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Rita Fleming — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Messmer
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-07 Senator Houchin added as second author
• 2020-01-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-21 House sponsor: Representative Manning
• 2020-01-21 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-01-22 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Representatives Morris, Fleming, Miller added as cosponsors
• 2020-02-27 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-03-02 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 93, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-04 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-14 Public Law 30

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/997eb382-5c50-44d7-bfec-558017f8ab78. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).