republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sjr-17.md

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Bill	State comptroller.	Proposes an amendment to the Indiana Constitution to do the following: (1) Require the election of a state comptroller instead of an auditor of state. (2) Provide, effective June 30, 2023, that an individual serving as auditor of state after June 30, 2023, is considered to be serving as state comptroller for all purposes under the Indiana Constitution and Indiana law. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SJR 17	Indiana SJR 17 (2025)	joint resolution	ELECTIONS; Candidates STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller	enacted	Cyndi Carrasco Gregory Steuerwald Linda Rogers	4	19	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-03	openstates	ocd-bill/89b01594-e381-43fd-a721-c0f607efba36	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sj0017	06f1f346ae1b7a1ed94eb1055518b861da56b18960e51f1ca320dc481f2e1814	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SJR 17 (2025) — State comptroller.

Proposes an amendment to the Indiana Constitution to do the following: (1) Require the election of a state comptroller instead of an auditor of state. (2) Provide, effective June 30, 2023, that an individual serving as auditor of state after June 30, 2023, is considered to be serving as state comptroller for all purposes under the Indiana Constitution and Indiana law. This proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Senate Resolution (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Resolution (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Resolution (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Resolution (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SJR 17 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — 94–1 (pass) · lower
• SJR 17 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — 48–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Ethan Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
• Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Carrasco
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-16 Senator Rogers added as second author
• 2025-01-21 Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
• 2025-01-23 Cosponsors: Representatives Davis and Lawson E
• 2025-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
• 2025-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 12: yeas 48, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-24 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 94, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-26 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Public Law 245 became-law
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/89b01594-e381-43fd-a721-c0f607efba36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).