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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Inventory of lost farmland."
+description: "Directs the state department of agriculture to conduct an inventory of farmland lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2022."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1557"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1557 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGRICULTURE generally", "AGRICULTURE", "State Agencies and Programs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Kendell Culp", "Susan Glick"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1713e8eb-f80f-433a-994a-82d7fe8a7fbe"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1557"
+source_hash: "81f1e87dc390d7084a7102ab145295d62a8897829f860a7971d53aadb6b954e1"
+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 HB 1557 (2023) — Inventory of lost farmland.
+
+Directs the state department of agriculture to conduct an inventory of farmland lost in Indiana from 2010 to 2022.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1557/versions/HB1557.04.ENRS)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1557/versions/HB1557.02.COMH)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1557/versions/HB1557.03.COMS)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1557/versions/HB1557.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1557 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Kendell Culp — primary (person)
+- Susan Glick — primary (person)
+- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
+- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
+- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Coauthored by Representative Aylesworth
+- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Culp
+- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-31** Representative Bauer M added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-06** Representative Miller D added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 80: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-06** Senate sponsor: Senator Leising
+- **2023-02-07** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2023-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-16** Senator Glick added as second sponsor
+- **2023-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 233: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 88 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1713e8eb-f80f-433a-994a-82d7fe8a7fbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+