---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal-state compact."
description: "Codifies the compact between the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the state providing for the conduct of tribal class III gaming."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1055"
citation: "Indiana HB 1055 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of", "WATERSHED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Linda Rogers", "Ryan Mishler", "Timothy Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfea230b-39ee-4469-971c-32115c9bd034"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1055"
source_hash: "ef789d3074c8e551f191f2cd56858c343a8a419e4cdb28403f0aed36901a94c3"
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 1055 (2021) — Tribal-state compact.

Codifies the compact between the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the state providing for the conduct of tribal class III gaming.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1055/versions/HB1055.05.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1055/versions/HB1055.03.COMH)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1055/versions/HB1055.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1055/versions/HB1055.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1055/versions/HB1055.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1055 - Mishler - 3rd Reading — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Dvorak — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Aylesworth
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2021-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Representative Hamilton added as coauthor
- **2021-02-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Niemeyer and Charbonneau
- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 232: yeas 90, nays 3 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Senator Niezgodski added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: Pursuant to Senate Rule 66(b); approved by Rules Committee as amended by Senate Committee on Appropriations.
- **2021-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** Senator Niemeyer removed as sponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Mishler added as sponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Charbonneau removed as second sponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Niezgodski removed as cosponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Rogers added as third sponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Niezgodski added as second sponsor
- **2021-04-05** Senator Ford Jon added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 348: yeas 49, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-07** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-08** Representative Aylesworth removed as author
- **2021-04-08** Representative Brown, T. added as author
- **2021-04-12** Representative Hamilton removed as coauthor
- **2021-04-12** Representatives Teshka J, Dvorak, Bauer M added as coauthors
- **2021-04-14** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-19** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 461: yeas 76, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 171

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfea230b-39ee-4469-971c-32115c9bd034`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).