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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pro bono legal services fee."
+description: "Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1478"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1478 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COURTS; Attorneys", "COURTS; Generally", "COURTS; Probate Court and Proceedings", "COURTS; Small Claims Courts", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Alex Zimmerman", "Ed Charbonneau", "Eric Koch", "Rodney Pol"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1478"
+source_hash: "ff522b807934bd8848bd5deb50acac0ffacbfe5206c765281583a39d7e84cc84"
+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 1478 (2025) — Pro bono legal services fee.
+
+Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.
+
+## 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/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.05.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.04.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.03.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1478 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — **90–1** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1478 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
+- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
+- Garrett Bascom — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** Coauthored by Representatives Bascom and DeLaney
+- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Zimmerman
+- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-10** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch, Charbonneau, Pol
+- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 116: yeas 90, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-11** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2025-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 348: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-22** Public Law 106 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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