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---
type: "Bill"
title: "The practice of law."
description: "Allows an Indiana resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 524"
citation: "Indiana SB 524 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "COURTS; Attorneys"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndi Carrasco", "Eric Koch", "Jennifer Meltzer", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-16"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38ecb331-2ca2-4e39-a0b3-2ad560172b6c"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0524"
source_hash: "0b47cd635ff8a47913ef61c13350220417acc7e52ddac09281c1615646c78323"
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 524 (2025) — The practice of law.
Allows an Indiana resident of a contiguous county to be appointed the head of the department of law.
## 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/SB0524/SB0524.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0524/SB0524.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 524 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — **471** (pass) · upper
- SB 524 - Meltzer - 3rd Reading — **896** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jennifer Meltzer — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-16** Authored by Senator Carrasco
- **2025-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2025-02-03** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2025-02-03** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2025-02-06** Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative Davis
- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Meltzer
- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 211: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-21** 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: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 315: yeas 89, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Public Law 43 `became-law`
- **2025-04-09** 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/38ecb331-2ca2-4e39-a0b3-2ad560172b6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).