---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regional redevelopment."
description: "Provides that a public instrumentality or a public corporate body authorized by state law may enter into an interlocal agreement. Allows two or more eligible units to establish a land bank jointly by entering into an interlocal agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1370"
citation: "Indiana HB 1370 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris May", "Mark Messmer", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81019844-c970-42c4-ae39-be68b7635ea3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1370"
source_hash: "a4afdf5f0cc9ef9ece04b5938bf43435f478e61b7f4f2fc9380a18e907d48ed4"
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 1370 (2020) — Regional redevelopment.

Provides that a public instrumentality or a public corporate body authorized by state law may enter into an interlocal agreement. Allows two or more eligible units to establish a land bank jointly by entering into an interlocal agreement.

## 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/2020/bills/HB1370/versions/HB1370.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1370/versions/HB1370.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1370/versions/HB1370.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1370/versions/HB1370.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1370 - May - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1370 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris May — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Chris Chyung — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Authored by Representative May
- **2020-01-15** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2020-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 112: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-28** Representative Chyung added as coauthor
- **2020-01-28** Representative Torr added as coauthor
- **2020-01-29** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Senator Bohacek added as second sponsor
- **2020-02-20** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 249: yeas 45, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 26

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81019844-c970-42c4-ae39-be68b7635ea3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).