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type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal parks and recreation board."
description: "Allows a resident of the library district to be appointed to the parks and recreation board of a third class city or a town."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 351"
citation: "Indiana SB 351 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LIBRARIES; Generally", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ethan Lawson", "Mike Gaskill", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c2d69b4e-640d-4c52-b40f-7f3bec851a21"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0351"
source_hash: "7a2dd4c1da8e62b32a4b752823fd3db5894b3cef05a426bd24aa4c6c18f34795"
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 351 (2025) — Municipal parks and recreation board.
Allows a resident of the library district to be appointed to the parks and recreation board of a third class city or a town.
## 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/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0351/SB0351.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0351/SB0351.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0351/SB0351.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0351/SB0351.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 351 - Lawson - 3rd Reading — **940** (pass) · lower
- SB 351 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 351 - Gaskill — **440** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ethan Lawson — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Authored by Senator Gaskill
- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-18** House sponsor: Representative Lawson
- **2025-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 312: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-17** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-21** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 476: yeas 44, nays 0
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 133 `became-law`
- **2025-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c2d69b4e-640d-4c52-b40f-7f3bec851a21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).