---
type: "Bill"
title: "State commission and board meetings."
description: "Provides that in order for the commission on Hispanic/Latino affairs to take action at a meeting, at least: (1) 11 members must be present; and (2) a majority of the members present at the meeting (instead a majority of members appointed to the commission) must vote in favor of the action."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1166"
citation: "Indiana HB 1166 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS", "Existing Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Peggy Mayfield", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1cc1e58-8c41-4202-81c2-8ef6c2b89cbd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1166"
source_hash: "81e6ddac53c624c0b66dc6f0f5c5ee830974448294a5224df6e303daa1b5d771"
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 1166 (2020) — State commission and board meetings.

Provides that in order for the commission on Hispanic/Latino affairs to take action at a meeting, at least: (1) 11 members must be present; and (2) a majority of the members present at the meeting (instead a majority of members appointed to the commission) must vote in favor of the action.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1166/versions/HB1166.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1166/versions/HB1166.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1166/versions/HB1166.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1166/versions/HB1166.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1166 - Mayfield - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1166 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **42–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Authored by Representative Mayfield
- **2020-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Representative Harris added as coauthor
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Niemeyer and Tomes
- **2020-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 51: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 42, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 21

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1cc1e58-8c41-4202-81c2-8ef6c2b89cbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).