republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-357.md

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Bill	Acceptance of electronic conveyance documents.	Effective January 1, 2024, provides that a county recorder, auditor, or assessor may not refuse to accept or endorse a document because the document is an electronic document. Provides that certain recording requirements do not apply to a military discharge, a survey of real property, or a plat of real property. Provides that if a county auditor has not collected the recording fee for a tax deed, the county recorder shall collect the recording fee when the tax deed is recorded. Requires the county auditor to use revenue collected for endorsing documents for the maintenance of property tax records (instead of platbooks). Makes conforming amendments.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 357	Indiana SB 357 (2022)	bill	ASSESSORS AUDITS AND AUDITORS ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS PUBLIC RECORDS RECORDERS	enacted	Karen Engleman Liz Brown Mike Gaskill	5	24	1	2022-01-11	2022-03-07	openstates	ocd-bill/86778d4b-1383-4f10-b4cf-2e3573ee9449	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/357	f9b32a6fab792521931713fdd76534015ecef9f306019a5be5a986ce667ab973	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 357 (2022) — Acceptance of electronic conveyance documents.

Effective January 1, 2024, provides that a county recorder, auditor, or assessor may not refuse to accept or endorse a document because the document is an electronic document. Provides that certain recording requirements do not apply to a military discharge, a survey of real property, or a plat of real property. Provides that if a county auditor has not collected the recording fee for a tax deed, the county recorder shall collect the recording fee when the tax deed is recorded. Requires the county auditor to use revenue collected for endorsing documents for the maintenance of property tax records (instead of platbooks). Makes conforming amendments.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (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 357 - Engleman - 3rd Reading — 92–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Karen Engleman — primary (person)
• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
• Jerry Torr — cosponsor (person)
• Zach Payne — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Authored by Senator Brown L
• 2022-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-24 Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-01-24 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-24 Senator Gaskill added as second author
• 2022-01-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 81: yeas 46, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-25 House sponsor: Representative Engleman
• 2022-01-25 Cosponsor: Representative Torr
• 2022-01-25 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
• 2022-01-26 Referred to the House
• 2022-02-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-14 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Representative Payne Z added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-15 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 193: yeas 92, nays 1 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-16 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-21 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-02-22 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 248: yeas 48, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-07 Public Law 26
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86778d4b-1383-4f10-b4cf-2e3573ee9449. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).