---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residency of police officers and firefighters."
description: "Revises residency requirements for members of police and fire departments to require that members: (1) have adequate means of transportation into the jurisdiction served by the member's department; and (2) maintain telephone service to communicate with the department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1033"
citation: "Indiana HB 1033 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "City Police"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Sandlin", "Mike Gaskill", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae508a9f-3993-44fa-a20e-f303a75c7257"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1033"
source_hash: "0b59c411c23239ef9427a828789e4f1f3a5bce5f1f1f946d8ab522edc37d2bfd"
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 1033 (2021) — Residency of police officers and firefighters.

Revises residency requirements for members of police and fire departments to require that members: (1) have adequate means of transportation into the jurisdiction served by the member's department; and (2) maintain telephone service to communicate with the department.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1033/versions/HB1033.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1033/versions/HB1033.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1033/versions/HB1033.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1033/versions/HB1033.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1033/versions/HB1033.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1033 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **78–16** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Gutwein — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — cosponsor (person)
- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Frye R
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #1 (Hatcher) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representative Bartels added as coauthor
- **2021-02-01** Representatives Gutwein and Gore M added as coauthors
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Sandlin
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 35: yeas 78, nays 16 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-09** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-09** Senator Gaskill added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-09** Senator Raatz added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-15** Amendment #2 (Sandlin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-15** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 227: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-22** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-03-25** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 302: yeas 68, nays 20 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 28

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae508a9f-3993-44fa-a20e-f303a75c7257`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).