republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-234.md

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Bill	Disaster emergency.	Provides that a state of disaster emergency declared by the governor: (1) that applies to the entire state may not continue for more than 60 days unless a renewal is authorized by the general assembly; and (2) that only applies to part of the state may not continue for more than 30 days unless renewed by the governor. Provides that the renewal of a statewide disaster emergency authorized by the general assembly may continue for not more than 60 days. Specifies that if a state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state has ended, the governor may not call a new state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state unless the new disaster is wholly unrelated to the earlier disaster. Defines "wholly unrelated".	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 234	Indiana SB 234 (2024)	bill	GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Generally HOMELAND SECURITY; Emergency Management and Preparedness	enacted	Aaron Freeman Chris Garten Matt Lehman Travis Holdman	4	33	3	2024-01-08	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c6773d98-d7e8-486d-bd87-0c7943d0a5c7	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0234	e5faf53eded5613beb0dcee63ecd0a44ab43b0e052d97d39a406afb01abfa01a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 234 (2024) — Disaster emergency.

Provides that a state of disaster emergency declared by the governor: (1) that applies to the entire state may not continue for more than 60 days unless a renewal is authorized by the general assembly; and (2) that only applies to part of the state may not continue for more than 30 days unless renewed by the governor. Provides that the renewal of a statewide disaster emergency authorized by the general assembly may continue for not more than 60 days. Specifies that if a state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state has ended, the governor may not call a new state of disaster emergency that applies to the entire state unless the new disaster is wholly unrelated to the earlier disaster. Defines "wholly unrelated".

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. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 234 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — 71–27 (pass) · lower
• SB 234 - Garten - 3rd Reading — 38–10 (pass) · upper
• SB 234 - Garten — 40–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Chris Garten — primary (person)
• Matt Lehman — primary (person)
• Travis Holdman — primary (person)
• Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
• Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
• Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
• Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• James Tomes — coauthor (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — coauthor (person)
• Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
• Kyle Walker — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
• Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
• Michael Young — coauthor (person)
• Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
• Randy Maxwell — coauthor (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
• Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
• Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
• Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)
• Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
• Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
• Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Senators Garten, Freeman, Holdman
• 2024-01-08 Coauthored by Senators Raatz, Glick, Baldwin, Brown L, Gaskill, Busch, Johnson T
• 2024-01-10 Senators Rogers and Goode G added as coauthors
• 2024-01-11 Senators Byrne, Doriot, Buck, Alexander, Messmer added as coauthors
• 2024-01-18 Senator Koch added as coauthor
• 2024-01-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Senator Buchanan added as coauthor
• 2024-01-22 Amendment #2 (Garten) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-01-22 Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
• 2024-01-22 Senator Young M added as coauthor
• 2024-01-22 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Cosponsors: Representatives Jeter C and Lindauer
• 2024-01-23 Senators Crane, Tomes, Deery, Zay, Maxwell added as coauthors
• 2024-01-23 Senators Niemeyer and Walker K added as coauthors
• 2024-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 38, nays 10 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Lehman
• 2024-01-24 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Representative Barrett added as cosponsor
• 2024-03-04 Rule 105.1 suspended
• 2024-03-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 71, nays 27 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2024-03-06 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2024-03-07 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 297: yeas 40, nays 8
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 120 became-law
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6773d98-d7e8-486d-bd87-0c7943d0a5c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).