Indiana 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted 3 R cosponsors

HB 1134 — Executive sessions.

Last action — Public Law 158

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed House
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Mike Braun (Republican) on May 01, 2025.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Advancing 56% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 3 sponsors

    2 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (3 R).

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Summary

Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Public Law 158

  2. Signed by the Governor

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate

  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  5. Signed by the Speaker

  6. House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 465: yeas 67, nays 13

  7. Motion to concur filed

  8. Returned to the House with amendments

  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 324: yeas 47, nays 1

  10. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  11. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  12. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government

  13. Referred to the Senate

  14. Senate sponsor: Senator Buck

  15. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 91, nays 4

  16. Amendment #1 (Smaltz) prevailed; voice vote

  17. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  18. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  19. Authored by Representative Smaltz

  20. First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform

  21. Coauthored by Representative Davis

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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2 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 147 not signed on

Sponsors (2)

Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (147)

147 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Subjects

public-safety healthcare labor
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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1134 do?
Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information.
Who sponsors HB 1134?
HB 1134 is sponsored by James Buck (Republican), Michelle Davis (Republican), and Ben Smaltz (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1134?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2025. Enacted.
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