---
type: "Bill"
title: "Northeast Indiana development commission."
description: "Establishes the northeast Indiana strategic development commission (commission) as a body corporate and politic. Provides for appointment of members of the commission. Specifies the purposes of the commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1238"
citation: "Indiana HB 1238 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Creation of New Agencies", "INCOME TAXES", "Gross Income Taxes", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dave Heine", "Liz Brown", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1945f12-da55-4131-a2c1-3a568cf65657"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1238"
source_hash: "1e28867a745cf77723de5901da65caa2a5b45bda6172f7f9b95a80f2bf476930"
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 1238 (2021) — Northeast Indiana development commission.

Establishes the northeast Indiana strategic development commission (commission) as a body corporate and politic. Provides for appointment of members of the commission. Specifies the purposes of the commission.

## 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/HB1238/versions/HB1238.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1238/versions/HB1238.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1238/versions/HB1238.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1238/versions/HB1238.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1238/versions/HB1238.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1238 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dave Heine — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Heine
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Amendment #1 (Bartlett) failed; Roll Call 22: yeas 37, nays 60 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representatives Lehman, GiaQuinta, Miller added as coauthors
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Holdman
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 91, nays 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** Amendment #1 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Senator Brown L added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-25** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-03-29** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 320: yeas 89, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-15** Public Law 58

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1945f12-da55-4131-a2c1-3a568cf65657`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).