---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of the attorney general."
description: "Requires a teacher's electronic mail address to be used for sending the annual summary of a teacher's rights and protections. Removes the requirement that the attorney general publish an annual newspaper notice regarding unclaimed property held by the attorney general with a value of more than $100."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1220"
citation: "Indiana HB 1220 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education", "PROPERTY; Abandoned or Unclaimed Property", "SCHOOLS; Teachers", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Attorney General", "TRANSPORTATION; Infrastructure; Bridges and Tunnels"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Buck", "Justin Busch", "Michael Karickhoff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96eb5252-b268-40f8-bc4b-af35af64a1f4"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1220"
source_hash: "09f9e33612d92ff9b32c585cd0c5f97845c69a95a9965c6c26e9e2da587f9924"
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 1220 (2025) — Office of the attorney general.

Requires a teacher's electronic mail address to be used for sending the annual summary of a teacher's rights and protections. Removes the requirement that the attorney general publish an annual newspaper notice regarding unclaimed property held by the attorney general with a value of more than $100.

## 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/HB1220/HB1220.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1220/HB1220.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1220/HB1220.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1220/HB1220.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1220 - Karickhoff - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1220 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Buck — primary (person)
- Justin Busch — primary (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Garrett Bascom — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Authored by Representative Karickhoff
- **2025-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09** Coauthored by Representative Bascom
- **2025-01-21** Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
- **2025-02-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Representative Miller D added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Senate sponsor: Senator Buck
- **2025-02-11** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Senator Busch added as second sponsor
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 55 `became-law`
- **2025-04-10** 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/96eb5252-b268-40f8-bc4b-af35af64a1f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).