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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Attorney's fees."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Indiana SB 226 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally", "COURTS; Attorneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Torr", "Liz Brown", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9792b413-c70f-4f1f-92f0-35ee87956bad"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0226"
source_hash: "aabd814428d1c5fa7409f544c3e73911029b2f32854ed0c224615b8811461f72"
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 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](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.05.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.03.COMH.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 226 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · upper
- SB 226 - Gaskill — **470** (pass) · upper
- SB 226 - Torr — **960** (pass) · lower
- SB 226 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **950** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9792b413-c70f-4f1f-92f0-35ee87956bad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).