Indiana 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 5 R · 2 D cosponsors

HB 1208 — Administration of sheriff's commissary fund.

Last action — Signed by the Governor

  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 April 10, 2025.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Likely to advance 78% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 7 sponsors

    2 primary, 5 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (5 R · 2 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor

  2. Public Law 54

  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 303: yeas 95, nays 0

  7. Motion to concur filed

  8. Returned to the House with amendments

  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 247: yeas 49, nays 0

  10. Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor

  11. Senator Randolph added as cosponsor

  12. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  13. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  14. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government

  15. Referred to the Senate

  16. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 67: yeas 88, nays 0

  17. Senate sponsor: Senator Clark

  18. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  19. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  20. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government

  21. Coauthored by Representatives Lehman, May, Gore

  22. Authored by Representative Steuerwald

Sponsors

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2 sponsors · 5 co-sponsors · 143 not signed on

Sponsors (2)

Co-sponsors (5)

Not signed on (143)

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1208 do?
Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.
Who sponsors HB 1208?
HB 1208 is sponsored by Daryl Schmitt (Republican), Lonnie Randolph (Democrat), Brett Clark (Republican), Mitch Gore (Democrat), Chris May (Republican), Matt Lehman (Republican), and Gregory Steuerwald (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1208?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2025. Enacted.
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