---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighter discipline."
description: "Provides that a fire department of a fire protection district or fire protection territory is subject to certain disciplinary and due process requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1025"
citation: "Indiana HB 1025 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS", "FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack Sandlin", "James Buck", "Jerry Torr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5d3bdee-31e9-4c5e-aaf2-b995ccef69ed"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1025"
source_hash: "54f1f3d909a8f3b9ec346bdb7b661dff1bc97fec7cf52687bf2ad9f54fc297ed"
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 1025 (2023) — Firefighter discipline.

Provides that a fire department of a fire protection district or fire protection territory is subject to certain disciplinary and due process requirements.

## 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/2023/bills/HB1025/versions/HB1025.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1025/versions/HB1025.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1025/versions/HB1025.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1025/versions/HB1025.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1025 - Sandlin - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Andrade — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Representative Torr
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-23** Representatives Frye, Moseley, Andrade M added as coauthors
- **2023-01-24** Senate sponsor: Senator Sandlin
- **2023-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-16** Senator Buck added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-16** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 57 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5d3bdee-31e9-4c5e-aaf2-b995ccef69ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).