Indiana Senate Bill 415 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on May 6 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-06 - Public Law 247
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Vacant and abandoned housing. Provides that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant. Specifies that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as abandoned or vacant property. Provides that an order of a local building standards hearing authority that real property is abandoned or vacant and nonpayment of the associated penalty permits the executive of the county, city, or town to certify to the

Vacant and abandoned housing. Provides that a county, city, or town fiscal body may adopt an ordinance to establish a deduction period for rehabilitated property that has also been determined to be abandoned or vacant. Specifies that there must be delinquent property taxes or special assessments on real property before it may be sold by the county treasurer as abandoned or vacant property. Provides that an order of a local building standards hearing authority that real property is abandoned or vacant and nonpayment of the associated penalty permits the executive of the county, city, or town to certify to the

Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Jeff Raatz [R]	Sen. Eric Bassler [R]	Sen. John Broden [D]
Sen. Jean Breaux [D]	Sen. Greg Taylor [D]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Sen. Elizabeth Brown [R]
Rep. Edward Clere [R]	Rep. Richard Hamm [R]

2015-04-21 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House Amendments (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-14 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2015-04-02 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-02-17 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-28 - Senate - Senate Committee on Local Government - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-06	Senate	Public Law 247
2015-05-06	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-04-29	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-04-27	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-04-21	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 491: yeas 45, nays 0
2015-04-16	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2015-04-15	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2015-04-14	House	Representatives Moed and Forestal removed as cosponsors
2015-04-14	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 422: yeas 95, nays 0
2015-04-09	House	Amendment #5 (Pryor) prevailed; voice vote
2015-04-09	House	Amendment #3 (McMillin) prevailed; voice vote
2015-04-09	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2015-04-07	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-03-03	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
2015-02-20	Senate	Referred to the House
2015-02-17	Senate	Representatives Hamm, Moed, Forestal added as cosponsors
2015-02-17	Senate	Representative Clere added as sponsor
2015-02-17	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 172: yeas 50, nays 0
2015-02-16	Senate	Amendment #4 (Merritt) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-16	Senate	Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
2015-02-16	Senate	Reread second time
2015-02-12	Senate	Placed back on second reading
2015-02-12	Senate	Senator Brown L added as coauthor
2015-02-10	Senate	Amendment #3 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-10	Senate	Amendment #2 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-10	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2015-02-05	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2015-01-29	Senate	Senators Breaux and Taylor added as coauthors
2015-01-29	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-01-22	Senate	Senator Broden added as coauthor
2015-01-12	Senate	Senator Bassler added as coauthor
2015-01-12	Senate	Senator Raatz added as second author
2015-01-12	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
2015-01-12	Senate	Authored by Senator Merritt

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/415/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/c/3/4/3c3457a6/SB0415.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/a/d/d/5addcc52/SB0415.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/e/1/1/ee11b77d/SB0415.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/5/f/1/75f17055/SB0415.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/a/2/b/8a2bd4be/SB0415.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/1/2/c/612cb5f9/SB0415.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/b/0/e/7b0ea967/SB0415.04.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/d/f/c/fdfc68d8/SB0415.04.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/e/1/5/fe15c7ee/SB0415.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/6/a/3/76a32827/SB0415.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/3/8/d/338dda9d/SB0415.06.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/e/5/c/be5c80e8/SB0415.06.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/5/7/a/a57ad914/SB0415.07.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/4/3/5/d4355654/SB0415.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/4/c/d/24cdb5f1/SB0415.172.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/5/c/d65c613c/SB0415.04.ENGS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/a/d/0/3ad0195e/SB0415.422.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/8/d/1/48d1c92b/SB0415.491.pdf