---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food purchases from agricultural programs."
description: "Provides that a public school or school corporation may purchase up to $7,500 of food per fiscal year from a youth agricultural education program, subject to certain restrictions and documentation requirements. Provides that the public school or school corporation is not prohibited from purchasing food from a youth agricultural education program under any other procurement requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1119"
citation: "Indiana HB 1119 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "Farm Products and Commodities", "COMMERCIAL CODE (UCC)", "EDUCATION generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Chris Garten", "Steven Davisson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5bfb875-516c-45b0-b47a-38fa9bcabfcf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1119"
source_hash: "cf901e7f9df66e355c634738c63a68f69265576c37ae5921176b0d35ab4659de"
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 1119 (2021) — Food purchases from agricultural programs.

Provides that a public school or school corporation may purchase up to $7,500 of food per fiscal year from a youth agricultural education program, subject to certain restrictions and documentation requirements. Provides that the public school or school corporation is not prohibited from purchasing food from a youth agricultural education program under any other procurement requirements.

## 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/HB1119/versions/HB1119.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1119/versions/HB1119.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1119/versions/HB1119.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1119/versions/HB1119.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1119 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Don Lehe — coauthor (person)
- Ethan Manning — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Davisson
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representatives Lehe, Manning, Klinker added as coauthors
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Buchanan
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 366: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Senator Garten added as second sponsor
- **2021-04-08** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-09** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-19** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 457: yeas 77, nays 0 `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** Public Law 175
- **2021-04-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5bfb875-516c-45b0-b47a-38fa9bcabfcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).