---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1412"
citation: "Indiana HB 1412 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS; HISTORIC SITES AND PRESERVATION", "LIBRARIES", "STATE AGENCIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "James Merritt", "Susan Glick", "Thomas Saunders"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cbc9921-1854-4364-8342-56cc7bcfdfea"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1412"
source_hash: "8bfd8c5c27eca2149a2fcff593af111cd65a105354c9f3b517347bdb51a95d35"
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 1412 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1412/versions/hb1412.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1412/versions/hb1412.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1412/versions/hb1412.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1412/versions/hb1412.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1412 - Saunders - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1412 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Thomas Saunders — primary (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)
- Robert Cherry — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Saunders
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Cherry added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Representative Pierce added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Glick and Buck
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 150: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** Representative Lawson added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Senator Merritt added as third sponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 42

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cbc9921-1854-4364-8342-56cc7bcfdfea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).