---
type: "Bill"
title: "Request for proposals for solid waste contracts."
description: "Authorizes a town or a city other than Indianapolis to enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of solid waste through a request for proposals process instead of an invitation for bids process. Establishes a request for proposals procedure under which a town or a city other than Indianapolis may enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of solid waste."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "Indiana HB 1286 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS", "PUBLIC CONTRACTS", "SOLID WASTE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Justin Busch", "Martin Carbaugh", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/268065d1-aa73-4ab0-9533-8a95eb564a90"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1286"
source_hash: "fabddcdaafbc2cf62d8a82bb308c4897b3c330c44f7c5261d038e2d82cf0f0b0"
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 1286 (2022) — Request for proposals for solid waste contracts.

Authorizes a town or a city other than Indianapolis to enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of solid waste through a request for proposals process instead of an invitation for bids process. Establishes a request for proposals procedure under which a town or a city other than Indianapolis may enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of solid waste.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1286/versions/HB1286.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1286/versions/HB1286.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1286/versions/HB1286.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1286/versions/HB1286.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1286 - Busch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Justin Busch — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Dave Heine — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Authored by Representative Carbaugh
- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Representatives Heine, Morris, GiaQuinta added as coauthors
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsor: Senator Busch
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 84: yeas 86, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Senator Holdman added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 240: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Senator Holdman removed as cosponsor
- **2022-02-22** Senator Holdman added as second sponsor
- **2022-02-22** Senators Brown L and Pol added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-22** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 37
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/268065d1-aa73-4ab0-9533-8a95eb564a90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).