republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-163.md

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Bill	Town fiscal management.	Changes the population point that distinguishes a second class city from a third class city from 35,000 to 34,000. Authorizes a town with a population of more than 34,000 to create the office of town controller, appointed by the town legislative body.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 163	Indiana SB 163 (2022)	bill	CITIES AND TOWNS LOCAL GOVERNMENT	enacted	Gregory Steuerwald John Crane Michael Young	6	24	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-10	openstates	ocd-bill/07c8d6fd-1e0d-4838-88be-29801d188ad3	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/163	236d2433b63b503683869b7a2d7e63978e8577e72d3629a795bcdfa7fb3bffc1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 163 (2022) — Town fiscal management.

Changes the population point that distinguishes a second class city from a third class city from 35,000 to 34,000. Authorizes a town with a population of more than 34,000 to create the office of town controller, appointed by the town legislative body.

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

Votes

• SB 163 - Young M - 3rd Reading — 41–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• John Crane — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Authored by Senator Young M
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-20 Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-01-20 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 41, nays 6 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-24 Senator Crane added as second author
• 2022-01-24 House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
• 2022-01-25 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2022-01-26 Referred to the House
• 2022-01-31 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-17 Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-21 Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-02-21 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 92, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-28 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-03-02 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 320: yeas 46, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-08 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-09 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-10 Public Law 56

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07c8d6fd-1e0d-4838-88be-29801d188ad3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).