---
type: "Bill"
title: "Membership of aviation boards."
description: "Provides that an eligible entity with a population of less than 38,000 is not subject to the political party membership requirements for a board of aviation commissioners or an airport authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1196"
citation: "Indiana HB 1196 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; State Board of Accounts (SBOA)", "AUDITS AND AUDITORS (Non-Elected)", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Budget Committee", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTIES; Clark", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Legislative Council", "LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; Generally", "LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; Mayors", "TRANSPORTATION; Aircraft", "TRANSPORTATION; Airports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stacey Donato", "Tony Isa"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64080da2-54f9-4975-a87c-375ca5f14303"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1196"
source_hash: "2fd0792917072b571721707575473c3d52b8b9c327c11c90a40c4b9ce9af8061"
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 1196 (2025) — Membership of aviation boards.

Provides that an eligible entity with a population of less than 38,000 is not subject to the political party membership requirements for a board of aviation commissioners or an airport authority.

## 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/HB1196/HB1196.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1196/HB1196.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1196/HB1196.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1196/HB1196.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1196 - Isa T - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1196 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **39–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Tony Isa — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Isa
- **2025-01-21** Representative Pressel added as coauthor
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-30** Representative Bartels added as coauthor
- **2025-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Donato
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-19** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 245: yeas 39, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-01** Public Law 18 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64080da2-54f9-4975-a87c-375ca5f14303`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).