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type: "Bill"
title: "Various trust and probate issues."
description: "Makes various changes to trust and probate laws concerning proof of title affidavits, small estate affidavits, execution of a trust by a third party, silent trusts, nonjudicial settlements of accounts, and legacy trusts. Makes technical corrections. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the probate code study commission.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "Indiana SB 50 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PROBATE COURTS AND PROCEEDINGS", "TRUSTS AND FIDUCIARIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Jerry Torr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6d27541-a964-4eab-b256-e633b2c73f49"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/50"
source_hash: "ef9dc28829187837fe808f50d4cf94be241a07c5d608a9899fb24f847a98915b"
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 50 (2020) — Various trust and probate issues.
Makes various changes to trust and probate laws concerning proof of title affidavits, small estate affidavits, execution of a trust by a third party, silent trusts, nonjudicial settlements of accounts, and legacy trusts. Makes technical corrections. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the probate code study commission.)
## 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/2020/bills/SB0050/versions/SB0050.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0050/versions/SB0050.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0050/versions/SB0050.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0050/versions/SB0050.03.COMH)
## Votes
- SB 50 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **920** (pass) · lower
- SB 50 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senators Freeman and Koch
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Torr
- **2020-01-28** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 336: yeas 41, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 56
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6d27541-a964-4eab-b256-e633b2c73f49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).