HB1312: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Engrossed House Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Public notices.

Legislators

Actions (13 total)

• Mar 3, 2025, 5:35 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
• Feb 19, 2025, 6:24 AM: Referred to the Senate
• Feb 18, 2025, 10:40 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 214: yeas 57, nays 36
• Feb 18, 2025, 10:39 AM: Senate sponsor: Senator Brown L
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:29 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:28 AM: Amendment #1 (Porter) failed; Roll Call 180: yeas 29, nays 64
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:24 AM: Amendment #5 (Mayfield) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 13, 2025, 6:01 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Feb 3, 2025, 10:39 AM: Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• Feb 3, 2025, 10:05 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:26 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:26 AM: Authored by Representative Meltzer
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:26 AM: Coauthored by Representatives Miller D and Zimmerman

Digest

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.