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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1509: Appointed officials.

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 1509 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Appointed officials. Primary sponsor: Eric Koch (Republican), Ed Clere (Independent). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

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 disclosure of the appointing authority and term of an appointed public officer: (1) in the meeting notice and agenda of the board on which the public officer is appointed to serve; and (2) on the board's website or appointing authority's website, if any. Provides that if the appointing authority or board does not have a website, the information must be published on the Internet through the computer gateway administered by the office of technology.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Independent 1 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Eric KochPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate44
Ed ClerePrimary sponsorIndependentHouse72
Wendy Dant ChesserCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse71
Jack JordanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse17

“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. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 65
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  5. Signed by the Speaker
  6. Returned to the House without amendments
  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 47, nays 0
  8. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  9. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  10. First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
  11. Referred to the Senate
  12. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 89, nays 0

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

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