Indiana Senate Bill 422 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: Passed on March 24 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-24 - Public Law 66
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Requires the attorney general to establish and maintain a tax sale blight registry of all persons ineligible to participate in the tax sale. Provides that properties certified as vacant or abandoned may be sold outright at the tax sale. Reduces the interest rate for payments in excess of a minimum bid from 10% to 5%. Lowers the interest rate for refunds on certain tax sales from 6% to 5%. Provides that the notice to a record owner of property must occur six months, instead of nine months, after the date of the tax sale. Requires the executive of a county, city, or town to obtain a judgment that a parcel of real property is vacant or abandoned before a certification can be made to the county auditor for tax sales purposes. Reduces the period from six to three months when a tax sale purchaser may petition the court for a judgment directing the county auditor to issue a tax deed if the real property is not redeemed from the sale. Specifies that a property tax penalty for property sold by a county executive through a certificate of sale procedure is to be removed from the tax duplicate if the penalty is associated with a delinquency that was not due until after the date of the original tax sale but is due before the issuance of the certificate of sale by the county executive. Requires, for tax deeds executed for real property sold at a tax sale, that the county auditor submit the tax deed directly to the county recorder for recording and charge the tax sale purchaser the appropriate recording fee. Permits the county auditor to be the only signer of a sales disclosure form. Adds the term "blighted" in determining whether a building is an unsafe building. Requires a business entity that seeks to register to bid at a tax sale to provide a certificate from the secretary of state to the

Abandoned housing.

Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]	Sen. Allen Paul [R]	Sen. Brent Waltz [R]
Sen. Jean Breaux [D]	Sen. Thomas Wyss [R]	Sen. Brent Steele [R]	Rep. Justin Moed [D]
Rep. Richard Hamm [R]	Rep. Dan Forestal [D]

2014-03-12 - Senate - Senate - Motion to Concur in House Amendments (Y: 45 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-03-03 - House - House Floor - (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-02-25 - House - House Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform - Roll Call 042202 (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-04 - Senate - Senate Floor - (Y: 47 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-01-29 - Senate - Senate Committee on Local Government - Roll Call 042201 (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-24	Senate	Public Law 66
2014-03-24	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2014-03-20	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2014-03-18	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2014-03-14	House	Signed by the Speaker
2014-03-12	Senate	Motion to Concur in House Amendments: prevailed; Roll Call 390: yeas 45 and nays 0
2014-03-03	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2014-03-03	House	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 381: yeas 97 and nays 0
2014-02-27	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed.
2014-02-27	House	SB 422 Amendment #5 (Moed), prevailed.
2014-02-27	House	SB 422 Amendment #3 (Macer), failed.
2014-02-27	House	SB 422 Amendment #2 (Clere), prevailed.
2014-02-25	House	Representative Forestal added as cosponsor.
2014-02-25	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-02-10	House	First Reading: Referred to Government and Regulatory Reform
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Hamm added as cosponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Moed added as cosponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Clere added as sponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-02-04	Senate	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 195: yeas 47 and nays 1
2014-02-04	Senate	Senator Steele added as coauthor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Senator Paul added as third author.
2014-02-04	Senate	Senator Wyss added as coauthor.
2014-02-03	Senate	Second reading: engrossed
2014-02-03	Senate	Senator Breaux added as coauthor.
2014-01-30	Senate	Senator Waltz added as coauthor.
2014-01-30	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Head added as second author.
2014-01-14	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Local Government
2014-01-14	Senate	Authored by Senator Merritt.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/422/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/9/1/1/c9112e49/SB0422.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/0/6/2/d062d337/SB0422.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/b/8/2/1b820271/SB0422.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/5/0/3/0503c7c6/SB0422.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/7/c/5/b7c5b32d/SB0422.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/e/d/1/7ed1ddd8/SB0422.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/e/2/2/ae224101/SB0422.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/8/b/b/18bb610f/SB0422.04.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/5/f/a/85fa7d48/SB0422.05.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/7/7/b/b77bf36e/SB0422.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/f/d/f/ffdf8663/SB0422.02.COMS.195.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/8/b/5/f8b5e00b/SB0422.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/a/f/b/7afbf96f/SB0422.04.ENGH.381.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/3/d/8/03d8d55c/SB0422.04.ENGH.390.pdf