---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open meetings."
description: "Requires a governing body of a school corporation (school board) to allow each member of the public attending a meeting (attendee) the opportunity to provide oral public comment. Allows a school board to permit oral public comment at a public meeting that is conducted electronically during a state or local disaster emergency. Restricts the circumstances in which the governing body of a state or local public agency may hold a virtual meeting during a declared disaster emergency without any of the governing body members physically present."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1130"
citation: "Indiana HB 1130 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS", "STATE AGENCIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "Mark Messmer", "Timothy O'Brien", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/911efaa2-7257-43af-bbfd-521c4d74fd4c"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1130"
source_hash: "709933a0ef09649c53bea77ca6bf90fb7c9423b38aa63854750a2d359c8167af"
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 1130 (2022) — Open meetings.

Requires a governing body of a school corporation (school board) to allow each member of the public attending a meeting (attendee) the opportunity to provide oral public comment. Allows a school board to permit oral public comment at a public meeting that is conducted electronically during a state or local disaster emergency. Restricts the circumstances in which the governing body of a state or local public agency may hold a virtual meeting during a declared disaster emergency without any of the governing body members physically present.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1130/versions/HB1130.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1130/versions/HB1130.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1130/versions/HB1130.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1130/versions/HB1130.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1130/versions/HB1130.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1130 - O'Brien T - 3rd Reading — **92–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
- Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Teshka and Bartels
- **2022-01-04** Authored by Representative O'Brien
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Representative Davis M added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsors: Senators Buck, Becker, Messmer
- **2022-01-25** Cosponsor: Senator Houchin
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 72: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** Amendment #5 (Buck) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-28** Amendment #4 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 270: yeas 11, nays 39 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-28** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 34, nays 11 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 91, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-14** Public Law 116

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/911efaa2-7257-43af-bbfd-521c4d74fd4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).