---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corrections and clarifications."
description: "Specifies that an \"eligible regional economic acceleration and development organization\" means any of the following: (1) A development authority. (2) A qualified nonprofit organization. Resolves a conflict between House Bill 1623 and Senate Bill 400."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1318"
citation: "Indiana HB 1318 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "Redevelopment and Renovation of Urban Areas", "INDIANA CODE", "NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Doug Miller", "James Buck", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89cbfec8-542a-43f8-a583-3ee923b0fba9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1318"
source_hash: "c4790ddb3b3ccb62ac3cc17d10b427230879c1fda7b8a944c34ca6c57e6a16cf"
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 1318 (2023) — Corrections and clarifications.

Specifies that an "eligible regional economic acceleration and development organization" means any of the following: (1) A development authority. (2) A qualified nonprofit organization. Resolves a conflict between House Bill 1623 and Senate Bill 400.

## 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/HB1318/versions/HB1318.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1318/versions/HB1318.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1318/versions/HB1318.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1318/versions/HB1318.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1318 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Coauthored by Representatives Bartels and O'Brien
- **2023-01-12** Authored by Representative Miller D
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Buck
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 57: yeas 98, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-13** Senator Pol added as third sponsor
- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 217: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-14** Senator Doriot added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-15** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-15** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-06** House conferees appointed: Miller D and Hatfield
- **2023-04-06** House advisors appointed: Lehman, O'Brien and Garcia Wilburn
- **2023-04-13** Senate conferees appointed: Buck and Taylor G
- **2023-04-13** Senate advisors appointed: Randolph Lonnie M and Brown L
- **2023-04-24** Senator Garten added as advisor
- **2023-04-27** Representative Hatfield removed as conferee
- **2023-04-27** Representative Steuerwald added as conferee
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 566: yeas 93, nays 0
- **2023-04-28** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 539: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 225 `became-law`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89cbfec8-542a-43f8-a583-3ee923b0fba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).