republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-183.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Native American Indian affairs commission."
description: "Changes the membership requirements for members of the Native American Indian affairs commission as follows: (1) Specifies that eight, rather than six, members must be Native American Indians from different geographic regions of Indiana. (2) Adds two nonvoting members appointed by the minority leaders of the senate and house of representatives. (3) Removes the requirement that two members must be Native American Indians who have knowledge in Native American traditions and spiritual issues. (4) Replaces the commissioner of the commission for higher education or the commissioner's designee as an ex officio member with the director of the department of child services or the director's designee. (5) Provides that not more than two members of the commission may represent the same tribe or organization. (Current law limits a particular tribe or organization to one member.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 183"
citation: "Indiana SB 183 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies", "NATIVE AMERICANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "Greg Walker", "Jon Ford"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-05"
last_action: "2021-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f242b279-bfa0-4938-a641-f6a30283d492"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/183"
source_hash: "dd6ef8fbf9901c6cbce6499ba03a9248de3308391acfbcded8818fe3125f1db5"
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 183 (2021) — Native American Indian affairs commission.

Changes the membership requirements for members of the Native American Indian affairs commission as follows: (1) Specifies that eight, rather than six, members must be Native American Indians from different geographic regions of Indiana. (2) Adds two nonvoting members appointed by the minority leaders of the senate and house of representatives. (3) Removes the requirement that two members must be Native American Indians who have knowledge in Native American traditions and spiritual issues. (4) Replaces the commissioner of the commission for higher education or the commissioner's designee as an ex officio member with the director of the department of child services or the director's designee. (5) Provides that not more than two members of the commission may represent the same tribe or organization. (Current law limits a particular tribe or organization to one member.)

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0183/versions/SB0183.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0183/versions/SB0183.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0183/versions/SB0183.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0183/versions/SB0183.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0183/versions/SB0183.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 183 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-05** Authored by Senator Walker G
- **2021-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 84: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-09** House sponsor: Representative Leonard
- **2021-02-09** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
- **2021-02-09** Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
- **2021-02-10** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Amendment #1 (Campbell) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Representative Miller added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-29** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 313: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-19** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-19** Public Law 72

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f242b279-bfa0-4938-a641-f6a30283d492`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).