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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Construction manager as constructor."
+description: "Provides that when a public agency chooses to employ a construction manager as constructor (CMc) on a public works project, the applicable contract award standard for the project is \"lowest and best\". Increases the maximum amount of work a CMc may perform on a project from 20% of the total value of a project to 30% of the total value of a project."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1559"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1559 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Administration (IDOA)", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Public Works and Improvements"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers", "Scott Baldwin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18c58e4a-759e-4a89-96b1-2659d4470070"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1559"
+source_hash: "652cbe6a7b64346802640f0210237c393f623d1c60c8cfd90ec45ca47d46ec6d"
+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 1559 (2025) — Construction manager as constructor.
+
+Provides that when a public agency chooses to employ a construction manager as constructor (CMc) on a public works project, the applicable contract award standard for the project is "lowest and best". Increases the maximum amount of work a CMc may perform on a project from 20% of the total value of a project to 30% of the total value of a project.
+
+## 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/HB1559/HB1559.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1559/HB1559.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1559/HB1559.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1559/HB1559.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1559 - VanNatter — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1559 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1559 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
+- Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
+- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative VanNatter
+- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-11** Representative Moseley added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Baldwin
+- **2025-02-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Pensions and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24** Senator Rogers added as second sponsor
+- **2025-03-24** Senators Niezgodski and Hunley added as cosponsors
+- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 368: yeas 90, nays 0
+- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-16** Public Law 95 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18c58e4a-759e-4a89-96b1-2659d4470070`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+