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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1134: Executive sessions.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1134 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Executive sessions. Primary sponsor: Jim Buck (Republican), Ben Smaltz (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (May 1, 2025): Public Law 158.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jim BuckPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate21
Ben SmaltzPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse52
Michelle DavisCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse58

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  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

Showing 12 most recent of 21 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source