republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-149.md

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Bill	Various courts matters.	Makes clarifying changes to the powers and duties of the Marion superior court executive committee. Provides that an appointed judicial officer shall be vested by the judges of the family division of the Marion superior court with suitable powers for the handling of all probate matters of the court. Removes and reallocates the powers and duties of a probate hearing judge, probate commissioner, juvenile referee, bail commissioner, and master commissioner from the Marion superior court. Provides that the Marion County judicial selection committee nomination procedure shall be followed when filling a vacancy that occurs in a court. Provides that a sheriff's service of process fee for each service performed outside Marion County applies to cases in the Marion County small claims court. Provides that the: (1) clerk of a circuit court; (2) clerk of a city or town court; or (3) judge of a city or town court that does not have a clerk; may retain as an administrative fee an amount of up to $3 from the excess amount collected by the clerk for general court costs.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 149	Indiana SB 149 (2022)	bill	CIRCUIT COURTS AND COURT OFFICERS COURTS generally INDIANAPOLIS MUNICIPAL COURTS	enacted	Eric Koch Gregory Steuerwald Liz Brown	5	36	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/3348c512-f77d-4c37-8582-85ec825c4a1c	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/149	517a67480d65170870c7f7271d9dfbccb3d785746f54c7f235fe444f4f2c4b90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 149 (2022) — Various courts matters.

Makes clarifying changes to the powers and duties of the Marion superior court executive committee. Provides that an appointed judicial officer shall be vested by the judges of the family division of the Marion superior court with suitable powers for the handling of all probate matters of the court. Removes and reallocates the powers and duties of a probate hearing judge, probate commissioner, juvenile referee, bail commissioner, and master commissioner from the Marion superior court. Provides that the Marion County judicial selection committee nomination procedure shall be followed when filling a vacancy that occurs in a court. Provides that a sheriff's service of process fee for each service performed outside Marion County applies to cases in the Marion County small claims court. Provides that the: (1) clerk of a circuit court; (2) clerk of a city or town court; or (3) judge of a city or town court that does not have a clerk; may retain as an administrative fee an amount of up to $3 from the excess amount collected by the clerk for general court costs.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 149 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 45–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Speedy — cosponsor (person)
• Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Authored by Senator Koch
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-18 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 45, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-20 House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
• 2022-01-20 Cosponsor: Representative Jeter C
• 2022-01-20 Senator Brown L added as second author
• 2022-01-21 Referred to the House
• 2022-01-31 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-10 Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-14 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Placed back on second reading reading-2
• 2022-02-17 Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-02-17 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-17 Representative Speedy added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 206: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-22 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-23 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-02-24 Concurrence withdrawn
• 2022-02-24 Motion to dissent filed
• 2022-02-24 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-25 House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Shackleford
• 2022-02-25 House advisors appointed: McNamara, Schaibley and Hatcher
• 2022-02-28 Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Lanane
• 2022-02-28 Senate advisors appointed: Brown L and Randolph Lonnie M
• 2022-03-03 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2022-03-03 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2022-03-07 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 339: yeas 50, nays 0
• 2022-03-07 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 355: yeas 92, nays 2
• 2022-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-09 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-14 Public Law 106
• 2022-03-14 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3348c512-f77d-4c37-8582-85ec825c4a1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).