---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional sports development commission."
description: "Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1292"
citation: "Indiana HB 1292 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Transportation (INDOT)", "AGENCIES; Economic Development Corporation (IEDC)", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Newly Created", "CITIES; Gary", "CITIES; Hammond", "CITIES; South Bend", "COUNTIES; Lake", "COUNTIES; Porter", "COUNTIES; St. Joseph", "SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics)", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Governor", "ZONING AND PLANNING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earl Harris", "Ed Charbonneau", "Rodney Pol", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ff78173-5ff8-4958-a898-595a8218cab7"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1292"
source_hash: "388ef2a8b14d7f6429c0a6abd0215c2bec6a1750a29237048868b86d1d7daf90"
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 1292 (2025) — Professional sports development commission.

Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund.

## 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/HB1292/HB1292.05.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1292/HB1292.04.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1292/HB1292.03.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1292/HB1292.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1292 - Mishler - 3rd Reading — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- HB 1292 - Harris - 3rd Reading — **83–6** (pass) · lower
- HB 1292 - Harris — **75–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Earl Harris — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Ethan Manning — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy O'Brien — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Representative Harris
- **2025-01-13** Coauthored by Representative Manning
- **2025-01-27** Representatives O'Brien and Miller D added as coauthors
- **2025-02-03** Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
- **2025-02-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-18** Senate sponsors: Senators Mishler, Pol, Charbonneau
- **2025-02-18** Cosponsor: Senator Zay
- **2025-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 83, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 359: yeas 46, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-16** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 469: yeas 75, nays 7
- **2025-04-17** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Public Law 119 `became-law`
- **2025-04-30** 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/9ff78173-5ff8-4958-a898-595a8218cab7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).