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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1312: Public notices.

Passed one chamber 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 1312 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Public notices. Primary sponsor: Liz Brown (Republican), Jenny Meltzer (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government.

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.

Requires the Indiana office of technology (office) to establish a state public notice website not later than July 1, 2026. Prohibits the office from charging a fee for publishing or viewing notices. Allows a person to satisfy any notice statute by publishing notice in any of the following forms of media: (1) Newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (2) Locality newspaper, including print edition or electronic edition. (3) The state public notice website. (4) Political subdivision website. Requires the Indiana archives and records administration (administration) to establish standards and guidelines and enter into memoranda of understanding with agencies for the transfer and preservation of public notices from the state public notice website to the administration to preserve public notices for historical purposes. Phases out the publication of notices on the political subdivision website. Phases in the publication of notices on the state public notice website.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Liz BrownPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate15
Jenny MeltzerPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse73
Doug MillerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse48
Alex ZimmermanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse67

“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. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
  2. Referred to the Senate
  3. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 214: yeas 57, nays 36
  4. Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
  5. Amendment #1 (Porter) failed; Roll Call 180: yeas 29, nays 64
  6. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  7. Amendment #5 (Mayfield) prevailed; voice vote
  8. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  9. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  10. Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  11. First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform
  12. Coauthored by Representatives Miller D and Zimmerman

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

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