---
type: "Bill"
title: "School safety commission."
description: "Provides for the appointment of a fire chief, or the fire chief's designee, to a county school safety commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1016"
citation: "Indiana HB 1016 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS", "FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts", "SCHOOLS; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Health and Safety Issues"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Commons", "Spencer Deery"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ead17ae0-a2f5-431e-a832-e86febad349f"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1016"
source_hash: "3b6bbf0c272d223dbe8eb3562dc148e0b9c0e5e54d93a321ee416d8fa1aaa203"
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 1016 (2025) — School safety commission.

Provides for the appointment of a fire chief, or the fire chief's designee, to a county school safety commission.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1016/HB1016.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1016/HB1016.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1016/HB1016.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1016/HB1016.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1016 - Deery - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1016 - Commons - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matt Commons — primary (person)
- Spencer Deery — primary (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Commons
- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Davis
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Representatives Bartels and O'Brien added as coauthors
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 44: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Deery
- **2025-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 256: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 27 `became-law`
- **2025-04-03** 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/ead17ae0-a2f5-431e-a832-e86febad349f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).