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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Notice of a public hearing or meeting."
+description: "Provides that the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) may, not later than 10 days after the last day of a public comment period, decide to hold a public hearing or meeting before the issuance or denial of a permit. Requires the department to provide notice if a public hearing or meeting will be held."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 1276"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1276 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Edmond Soliday", "Eric Koch"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-09"
+last_action: "2024-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b637cdd-0ff9-488f-92e5-a7da4a396b8e"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1276"
+source_hash: "49eed9700d7a8fbde1d4bda2483873e1a7990baa73ce114c4106853e711a9c9b"
+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 1276 (2024) — Notice of a public hearing or meeting.
+
+Provides that the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) may, not later than 10 days after the last day of a public comment period, decide to hold a public hearing or meeting before the issuance or denial of a permit. Requires the department to provide notice if a public hearing or meeting will be held.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1276 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1276 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Andy Zay — primary (person)
+- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Dave Hall — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-09** Authored by Representative Soliday
+- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2024-01-23** Representative Hall D added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
+- **2024-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-29** Senator Zay added as second sponsor
+- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-03-04** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2024-03-05** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Public Law 66 `became-law`
+- **2024-03-11** 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/7b637cdd-0ff9-488f-92e5-a7da4a396b8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+