---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regulation of grease control equipment."
description: "Establishes a statewide regulatory scheme for grease control equipment. Provides that a waste water treatment plant must continue to accept septage under certain circumstances. Creates a process for septage haulers to resolve disputes with wastewater treatment plants with respect to accepting septage."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1348"
citation: "Indiana HB 1348 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; Generally", "UTILITIES; Municipal Utilities", "UTILITIES; Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Jim Pressel", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b2f0a86-9f89-47d5-bedf-2d25c3188d43"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1348"
source_hash: "3e9803aea172e8f2c4d9d83ca84c0d8d45e67feb99532a94e384faf364b3a619"
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 1348 (2026) — Regulation of grease control equipment.

Establishes a statewide regulatory scheme for grease control equipment. Provides that a waste water treatment plant must continue to accept septage under certain circumstances. Creates a process for septage haulers to resolve disputes with wastewater treatment plants with respect to accepting septage.

## 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/HB1348/HB1348.06.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1348/HB1348.03.ENGH.pdf)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1348/HB1348.07.ENRS.pdf)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1348/HB1348.02.COMH.pdf)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1348/HB1348.05.COMS.pdf)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1348/HB1348.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1348 - Pressel — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1348 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **85–1** (pass) · lower
- HB 1348 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Beau Baird — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-06** Coauthored by Representatives Prescott, Morris
- **2026-01-06** Authored by Representative Pressel
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-22** Representative Baird added as coauthor
- **2026-01-27** Amendment #1 (Pressel) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-28** Senate sponsor: Senator Niemeyer
- **2026-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 85, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-29** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Senator Tomes added as second sponsor
- **2026-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-19** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Amendment #2 (Niemeyer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 256: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-25** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-25** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 379: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2026-02-26** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Public Law 95 `became-law`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b2f0a86-9f89-47d5-bedf-2d25c3188d43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).