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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Employment of minor league baseball players."
+description: "Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of \"employee\" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1558"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1558 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL)", "SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Niezgodski", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1558"
+source_hash: "c99f4d15b3bc4192ea71fa475a7e68cabdedbf265bcb14b3211a5729becccdda"
+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 1558 (2025) — Employment of minor league baseball players.
+
+Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of "employee" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
+
+## 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/HB1558/HB1558.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1558 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1558 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
+- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
+- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
+- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
+- Cory Criswell — coauthor (person)
+- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
+- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative VanNatter
+- **2025-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
+- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-04** Representatives Barrett, Criswell, Gore added as coauthors
+- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Senator Niezgodski added as second sponsor
+- **2025-03-24** Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
+- **2025-03-24** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25** Senator Hunley added as cosponsor
+- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-10** Public Law 67 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+