---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor organization membership."
description: "Provides that if a governmental entity contracts with a private entity to manage or lease an asset owned by the governmental entity, the governmental entity may not require or consider, as a provision of the contract or as a condition of entering into the contract, that the employees of the private entity are members or nonmembers of a labor organization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 405"
citation: "Indiana SB 405 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Unions", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Buildings", "Facilities", "and Properties", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers", "Randy Maxwell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bf88b95-7694-4a1b-b85c-d21dd95d4a73"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0405"
source_hash: "b527b8967f011aec7942c5d632be9329a0799238f0cd69642ef63afe62713202"
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 SB 405 (2025) — Labor organization membership.

Provides that if a governmental entity contracts with a private entity to manage or lease an asset owned by the governmental entity, the governmental entity may not require or consider, as a provision of the contract or as a condition of entering into the contract, that the employees of the private entity are members or nonmembers of a labor organization.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0405/SB0405.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0405/SB0405.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0405/SB0405.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0405/SB0405.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 405 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **57–31** (pass) · lower
- SB 405 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **35–13** (pass) · upper
- SB 405 - Rogers — **29–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Randy Maxwell — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Jake Teshka — cosponsor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Rogers
- **2025-01-27** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2025-01-29** Senator Maxwell added as third author
- **2025-01-29** Senator Donato added as coauthor
- **2025-01-29** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 73: yeas 35, nays 13 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** House sponsor: Representative VanNatter
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Cosponsors: Representatives Teshka and Miller D
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 402: yeas 57, nays 31 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-16** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 462: yeas 29, nays 9
- **2025-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 136 `became-law`
- **2025-05-01** 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/0bf88b95-7694-4a1b-b85c-d21dd95d4a73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).