---
type: "Bill"
title: "VFD clothing and automobile allowances."
description: "Increases, from $100 to $250, the clothing and automobile allowance for an active member of a volunteer fire department (department). Provides that a unit served by a volunteer fire department shall pay the clothing and automobile allowance directly to each active and participating member of the department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1048"
citation: "Indiana HB 1048 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Michael Crider", "Randy Novak", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-05"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5988085-d9b8-4739-ab9f-249bcc66d9cb"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1048"
source_hash: "8a85ba49826849ec1ec27348a7ca2246c84532a07b48ac2d1c531f3a966a09df"
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 1048 (2026) — VFD clothing and automobile allowances.

Increases, from $100 to $250, the clothing and automobile allowance for an active member of a volunteer fire department (department). Provides that a unit served by a volunteer fire department shall pay the clothing and automobile allowance directly to each active and participating member of the department.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1048/HB1048.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1048/HB1048.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1048/HB1048.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1048/HB1048.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1048 - Novak R - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1048 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1048 - Novak R — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Randy Novak — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — cosponsor (person)
- James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — cosponsor (person)
- Spencer Deery — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-12-05** Authored by Representative Novak
- **2026-01-05** Representative Pressel added as coauthor
- **2026-01-05** Representative Moseley added as coauthor
- **2026-01-20** Representatives Pressel, Bartels, Moseley added as coauthors
- **2026-01-20** Representatives Moseley, Pressel removed as coauthors
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-28** Cosponsors: Senators Bohacek, Niezgodski, Ford J.D.
- **2026-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 147: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-28** Senate sponsors: Senators Crider, Pol, Leising
- **2026-01-29** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-05** Senators Buck, Byrne, Tomes added as cosponsors
- **2026-02-09** Senator Glick added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-12** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 155: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Senator Alting added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-12** Senator Becker added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-12** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-12** Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-13** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-12** Senator Deery added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-16** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-18** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 274: yeas 91, nays 0
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 21 `became-law`
- **2026-02-24** 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/b5988085-d9b8-4739-ab9f-249bcc66d9cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).