---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pro bono legal services fee."
description: "Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1478"
citation: "Indiana HB 1478 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COURTS; Attorneys", "COURTS; Generally", "COURTS; Probate Court and Proceedings", "COURTS; Small Claims Courts", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alex Zimmerman", "Ed Charbonneau", "Eric Koch", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1478"
source_hash: "ff522b807934bd8848bd5deb50acac0ffacbfe5206c765281583a39d7e84cc84"
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 1478 (2025) — Pro bono legal services fee.

Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.

## 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/HB1478/HB1478.05.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.04.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1478/HB1478.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1478 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- HB 1478 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Garrett Bascom — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Coauthored by Representatives Bascom and DeLaney
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Zimmerman
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch, Charbonneau, Pol
- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 116: yeas 90, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 348: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-15** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-22** Public Law 106 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).