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type: "Bill"
title: "Uniform electronic legal material act."
description: "Implements the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which establishes a process for certain legal materials stored electronically to be: (1) designated as official; (2) authenticated; (3) preserved; and (4) made available to the public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "Indiana SB 131 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; INDIANA REGISTER", "ATTORNEY GENERAL", "COURT OF APPEALS", "INDIANA CODE", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "SUPREME COURT AND COURT OFFICERS", "UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "John Young", "Liz Brown", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05b832ec-8b87-4a52-81bd-a219fcd4a5b4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/131"
source_hash: "44493e86890b581156231b5d819f150228ec085f53d593353e2d558c417fc6b5"
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 131 (2022) — Uniform electronic legal material act.
Implements the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, which establishes a process for certain legal materials stored electronically to be: (1) designated as official; (2) authenticated; (3) preserved; and (4) made available to the public.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0131/versions/SB0131.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 131 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **900** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-04** Senator Koch added as coauthor
- **2022-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-20** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2022-01-20** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2022-01-20** Senator Brown L added as third author
- **2022-01-21** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-02-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 11
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05b832ec-8b87-4a52-81bd-a219fcd4a5b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).