---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judicial nominating commission."
description: "Makes certain changes to the election procedures for the attorney commissioners of the judicial nominating commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1120"
citation: "Indiana HB 1120 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies", "JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF INDIANA", "JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d101b1f9-bfe5-4786-b221-ba0de98029bc"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1120"
source_hash: "c53f4c9c53bf99a8269ee7dc2c2b7b9ff4248096884b68d3738bd403507a30ec"
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 1120 (2021) — Judicial nominating commission.

Makes certain changes to the election procedures for the attorney commissioners of the judicial nominating commission.

## 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/HB1120/versions/HB1120.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1120/versions/HB1120.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1120/versions/HB1120.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1120/versions/HB1120.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1120 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Coauthored by Representatives Torr, Jeter, DeLaney
- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-09** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2021-02-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 102: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-10** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 231: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-16** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2021-03-23** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 33
- **2021-04-08** 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/d101b1f9-bfe5-4786-b221-ba0de98029bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).