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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Meet and confer for public safety employees."
+description: "Allows an employer or an exclusive recognized representative of full-time employees of a police or fire department (exclusive representative) to request, in specified circumstances, an advisory opinion from the commissioner of labor (commissioner). Specifies a process by which an employer or exclusive representative may appeal in certain instances to the commissioner to request mediation and conciliation. Makes technical corrections and a conforming amendment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 76"
+citation: "Indiana SB 76 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "State Department and Agencies", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Michael Young", "Philip Boots", "Randall Frye"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-04"
+last_action: "2022-03-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbc1e62a-ef6f-421e-bd3b-5b2b68fa7df8"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/76"
+source_hash: "fa3d6a083f4021a40ef26816472fce600020c867bcdb1ca1d4528e331e65a9b3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 76 (2022) — Meet and confer for public safety employees.
+
+Allows an employer or an exclusive recognized representative of full-time employees of a police or fire department (exclusive representative) to request, in specified circumstances, an advisory opinion from the commissioner of labor (commissioner). Specifies a process by which an employer or exclusive representative may appeal in certain instances to the commissioner to request mediation and conciliation. Makes technical corrections and a conforming amendment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 76 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Philip Boots — primary (person)
+- Randall Frye — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
+- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Boots
+- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 7: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-11** House sponsor: Representative Frye R
+- **2022-01-11** Senator Doriot added as second author
+- **2022-01-11** Senator Young M added as third author
+- **2022-01-11** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
+- **2022-01-12** Referred to the House
+- **2022-01-20** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
+- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-01** Reassigned to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Morris added as cosponsor
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Gore M added as cosponsor
+- **2022-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-02-23** Motion to concur filed
+- **2022-02-24** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 263: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-07** Public Law 6
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbc1e62a-ef6f-421e-bd3b-5b2b68fa7df8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+