republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-304.md

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Bill	Township trustees and budgets.	Provides that the township board, county executive, and county fiscal body may adopt resolutions to collectively petition a court to remove a township trustee from office for committing certain violations. Requires the township board to meet and adopt the budget even if the township board intends for the most recent annual appropriations and annual tax levy of the township to be continued for the ensuing budget year. Corrects a reference to a provision imposing criminal liability for an officer's failure to file an adopted budget with the department of local government finance. Makes technical corrections.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 304	Indiana SB 304 (2022)	bill	TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS	enacted	Harold Slager James Tomes Rick Niemeyer Ron Alting	4	20	1	2022-01-10	2022-03-07	openstates	ocd-bill/17c1cbf4-2945-48d7-b4e0-c41f320b1177	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/304	56b70757f9c205183f7b3e7c176b86d3b7ec87b347f1dbc0ccc5c3e687d70c81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 304 (2022) — Township trustees and budgets.

Provides that the township board, county executive, and county fiscal body may adopt resolutions to collectively petition a court to remove a township trustee from office for committing certain violations. Requires the township board to meet and adopt the budget even if the township board intends for the most recent annual appropriations and annual tax levy of the township to be continued for the ensuing budget year. Corrects a reference to a provision imposing criminal liability for an officer's failure to file an adopted budget with the department of local government finance. Makes technical corrections.

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 304 - Slager - 3rd Reading — 88–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Harold Slager — primary (person)
• James Tomes — primary (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
• Ron Alting — primary (person)
• Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Aylesworth — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Authored by Senators Niemeyer and Alting
• 2022-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-25 Senator Tomes added as third author
• 2022-01-25 Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
• 2022-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 124: yeas 36, nays 12 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 House sponsor: Representative Slager
• 2022-02-01 Cosponsors: Representatives Klinker, Aylesworth, Olthoff
• 2022-02-02 Referred to the House
• 2022-02-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-21 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 257: yeas 88, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-07 Public Law 24

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17c1cbf4-2945-48d7-b4e0-c41f320b1177. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).