---
type: "Bill"
title: "State fossil."
description: "Designates the mastodon as the official state fossil of Indiana."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1013"
citation: "Indiana HB 1013 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FLAGS AND SYMBOLS", "INDIANA AND UNITED STATES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Michael Crider", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c012f77-faa1-4452-9f6b-27bcbaf0335f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1013"
source_hash: "380e8262a87a734fc05db3c7c4024e21a82ee283a1e88b0a0bc8e14e5e9bed90"
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 1013 (2022) — State fossil.

Designates the mastodon as the official state fossil of Indiana.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1013/versions/HB1013.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1013/versions/HB1013.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1013/versions/HB1013.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1013/versions/HB1013.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1013 - Garten - 3rd Reading — **39–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- David Abbott — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — cosponsor (person)
- Karen Engleman — coauthor (person)
- Kevin Boehnlein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Representative Frye R
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Representative Abbott D added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsors: Senators Houchin and Garten
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 67: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Representatives Engleman and Bartlett added as coauthors
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Senator Garten removed as second sponsor
- **2022-02-01** Senator Houchin removed as sponsor
- **2022-02-01** Senator Garten added as sponsor
- **2022-02-01** Senator Crider added as second sponsor
- **2022-02-01** Senator Houchin added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 195: yeas 39, nays 6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-14** Senators Busch and Boehnlein added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-15** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 32

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c012f77-faa1-4452-9f6b-27bcbaf0335f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).