republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-226.md

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Bill	Attorney's fees.	Increases: (1) the amount of attorney's fees that may be incurred by an offeror to $250 per hour; and (2) the total amount of attorney's fees, costs, and expenses that may be awarded to not more than $5,000; with respect to a qualified settlement offer.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 226	Indiana SB 226 (2024)	bill	CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally COURTS; Attorneys	enacted	Jerry Torr Liz Brown Mike Gaskill	4	33	4	2024-01-10	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/9792b413-c70f-4f1f-92f0-35ee87956bad	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0226	aabd814428d1c5fa7409f544c3e73911029b2f32854ed0c224615b8811461f72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 226 (2024) — Attorney's fees.

Increases: (1) the amount of attorney's fees that may be incurred by an offeror to $250 per hour; and (2) the total amount of attorney's fees, costs, and expenses that may be awarded to not more than $5,000; with respect to a qualified settlement offer.

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 226 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 226 - Gaskill — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 226 - Torr — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 226 - Torr - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jerry Torr — primary (person)
• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Authored by Senator Gaskill
• 2024-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Senator Brown L added as second author
• 2024-02-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-06 House sponsor: Representative Torr
• 2024-02-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 137: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Representatives Steuerwald and Jeter added as cosponsors
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2024-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 232: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2024-03-04 Concurrence withdrawn withdrawal
• 2024-03-04 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2024-03-04 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2024-03-05 House advisors appointed: Jeter, Steuerwald, Speedy, Bauer M and Garcia Wilburn
• 2024-03-05 Senate advisors appointed: Pol and Brown L
• 2024-03-05 Senate conferees appointed: Gaskill and Taylor G
• 2024-03-05 House conferees appointed: Torr and Hatfield
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 320: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 117 became-law
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 338: yeas 96, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2024-03-08 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9792b413-c70f-4f1f-92f0-35ee87956bad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).