---
type: "Bill"
title: "State board of accounts."
description: "Provides that the state board of accounts is subject to applicable professional auditing standards. Requires the governor to appoint two deputy examiners, one of whom must be a certified public accountant, and the other of whom must be either a certified public accountant or an attorney licensed in Indiana."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1267"
citation: "Indiana HB 1267 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; State Board of Accounts (SBOA)", "AUDITS AND AUDITORS (Non-Elected)", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Governor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Lehman", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c00549d-b1ab-4b8a-9f6a-27ba54d558c0"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1267"
source_hash: "ac9fa9c0293e587d275ee6b2a1ea8e72bbbac0844ec518ff14fee3f0083c5f7b"
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 1267 (2026) — State board of accounts.

Provides that the state board of accounts is subject to applicable professional auditing standards. Requires the governor to appoint two deputy examiners, one of whom must be a certified public accountant, and the other of whom must be either a certified public accountant or an attorney licensed in Indiana.

## 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/124/2026/house/bills/HB1267/HB1267.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1267/HB1267.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1267/HB1267.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1267/HB1267.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1267 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1267 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Chris Campbell — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Pierce — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Authored by Representative Lehman
- **2026-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** Representative Pierce M added as coauthor
- **2026-01-12** Representatives Miller D, Campbell added as coauthors
- **2026-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Baldwin
- **2026-01-23** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 78: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 151: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-11** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 31 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c00549d-b1ab-4b8a-9f6a-27ba54d558c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).