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type: "Bill"
title: "Residency of 911 operators."
description: "Provides that a public safety agency may not establish or maintain residency requirements for a public safety telecommunicator employed by a public safety agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Indiana SB 43 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris May", "Jack Sandlin", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/308af09a-f96d-433d-8bf2-e5a19fd9e7c8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/43"
source_hash: "bd308194e942857f22cc89b61f24cfd81dea2dc533f5525d94dd701d7202874f"
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 43 (2023) — Residency of 911 operators.
Provides that a public safety agency may not establish or maintain residency requirements for a public safety telecommunicator employed by a public safety agency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0043/versions/SB0043.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0043/versions/SB0043.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0043/versions/SB0043.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0043/versions/SB0043.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 43 - May - 3rd Reading — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chris May — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Sandlin
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Senator Byrne added as coauthor
- **2023-01-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** Senator Baldwin added as second author
- **2023-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 9: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-23** House sponsor: Representative May
- **2023-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative Abbott D
- **2023-01-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Representative Frye added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Representative Gore M added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 18 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/308af09a-f96d-433d-8bf2-e5a19fd9e7c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).