Indiana House Bill 1263 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 15 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-04-15 - Public Law 24
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Township trustee sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a township trustee is maintaining a cemetery that dates back at least to 1939, has no maintenance funds of its own, and is operated by a nonprofit organization or not managed by any viable organization, the township trustee may sell plots in the cemetery that are not known to be owned by any plot owner. Requires that the proceeds from the sale be deposited in the township's fund for maintenance of cemeteries, if the township has such a fund, or in the township fund of the township.

Township trustee sale of cemetery plots. Provides that if a township trustee is maintaining a cemetery that dates back at least to 1939, has no maintenance funds of its own, and is operated by a nonprofit organization or not managed by any viable organization, the township trustee may sell plots in the cemetery that are not known to be owned by any plot owner. Requires that the proceeds from the sale be deposited in the township's fund for maintenance of cemeteries, if the township has such a fund, or in the township fund of the township.

Rep. Milo Smith [R]	Rep. Steven Stemler [D]	Rep. Cherrish Pryor [D]	Rep. Robert Morris [R]
Sen. Greg Walker [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Rick Niemeyer [R]
Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Sen. Greg Taylor [D]

2015-03-17 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-03-11 - Senate - Senate Committee on Local Government - Committee Vote (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-02 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2015-01-22 - House - House Committee on Local Government - Committee Vote (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-15	House	Public Law 24
2015-04-15	House	Signed by the Governor
2015-04-14	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-04-07	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-03-23	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-03-18	Senate	Returned to the House without amendments
2015-03-17	Senate	Senators Randolph and Taylor added as cosponsor
2015-03-17	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 305: yeas 50, nays 0
2015-03-16	Senate	Senator Niemeyer added as cosponsor
2015-03-16	Senate	Senator Buck added as third sponsor
2015-03-16	Senate	Senator Leising added as second sponsor
2015-03-16	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-03-12	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2015-02-24	Senate	First Reading: Referred to committee on Local Government
2015-02-03	House	Referred to the Senate
2015-02-02	House	Senator Walker added as sponsor
2015-02-02	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 94, nays 0
2015-01-29	House	Representative Morris added as coauthor
2015-01-29	House	Representative Brown, T. removed as coauthor
2015-01-29	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-01-27	House	Representative Pryor added as coauthor
2015-01-27	House	Representative Stemler added as coauthor
2015-01-26	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-01-22	House	Representative Brown, T. added as coauthor
2015-01-13	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
2015-01-13	House	Authored by Representative Smith M

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/house/1263/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/d/1/2/1d12566a/HB1263.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/c/6/4/fc64a66c/HB1263.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/d/6/c/bd6c08d6/HB1263.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/c/5/f/bc5f7124/HB1263.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/a/f/6/5af61b4e/HB1263.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/4/1/2/b4126ba3/HB1263.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/5/c/8/d5c88e86/HB1263.04.ENRH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/0/3/9a034b43/HB1263.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/4/c/a/84ca65ec/HB1263.53.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/9/1/6/6916a996/HB1263.02.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/7/9/7/f797e880/HB1263.305.pdf