---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prescribed burning."
description: "Defines \"prescribed burn\". Provides for the following: (1) Requirements to be met before a person conducts a prescribed burning. (2) That a certified prescribed burn manager and a completed prescribed burn plan must be present during a prescribed burning. (3) Certain civil liability immunities related to conducting a prescribed burn and the prescribed burn certification program. (4) Under certain conditions, exemption of prescribed burning from certain local regulations. (5) That a prescribed burning and the smoke produced by the prescribed burning do not constitute a nuisance. (6) That the division of forestry shall administer the training and certification program for prescribed burning. Limits damages for injuries or losses as result of a prescribed burn to actual damages."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1557"
citation: "Indiana HB 1557 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "NATURAL RESOURCES; Forests and Forestry", "PROPERTY; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5636a21-ddea-4435-97ea-b573293d617c"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1557"
source_hash: "5f531554a42c8189aa6bb50e43d52365aeb78ed7ffaed6670d29c5e6f25d62e0"
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 1557 (2025) — Prescribed burning.

Defines "prescribed burn". Provides for the following: (1) Requirements to be met before a person conducts a prescribed burning. (2) That a certified prescribed burn manager and a completed prescribed burn plan must be present during a prescribed burning. (3) Certain civil liability immunities related to conducting a prescribed burn and the prescribed burn certification program. (4) Under certain conditions, exemption of prescribed burning from certain local regulations. (5) That a prescribed burning and the smoke produced by the prescribed burning do not constitute a nuisance. (6) That the division of forestry shall administer the training and certification program for prescribed burning. Limits damages for injuries or losses as result of a prescribed burn to actual damages.

## 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/HB1557/HB1557.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1557/HB1557.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1557/HB1557.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1557/HB1557.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1557 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **73–15** (pass) · lower
- HB 1557 - Baird — **80–10** (pass) · lower
- HB 1557 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **38–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beau Baird — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Baird
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Amendment #1 (Boy) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Glick
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 73, nays 15 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Representative Aylesworth added as coauthor
- **2025-02-04** Representatives Karickhoff and Bauer added as coauthors
- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 38, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-17** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 488: yeas 80, nays 10
- **2025-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-30** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30** Public Law 124 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d5636a21-ddea-4435-97ea-b573293d617c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).