---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food regulation."
description: "For provisions governing home based food products, repeals the term \"potentially hazardous food product\" and defines \"time temperature control for safety food\". Requires a local health department to: (1) issue a mobile retail food establishment permit and inspect a mobile retail food establishment in accordance with administrative rules adopted by the Indiana department of health (state department); and (2) establish an annual permit fee not to exceed $200. Requires a local health department, not later than January 1, 2025, to begin: (1) receiving applications for mobile retail food establishments; (2) collecting annual permit fees; (3) issuing mobile retail food establishment permits; and (4) conducting inspections of mobile retail food establishments. Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2025, a person from operating a mobile retail food establishment without a mobile retail food establishment permit from the local health department. Provides that a local health department may not adopt standards concerning mobile retail food establishments that are more stringent than the rules adopted by the state department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1258"
citation: "Indiana HB 1258 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Health (IDOH)", "AGRICULTURE; Food and Food Processing", "RESTAURANTS AND LODGING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Joanna King", "Stacey Donato", "Tyler Johnson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/787e3bdf-440d-4df2-bd55-fdc0473ca084"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1258"
source_hash: "d0aaed03efab21a896f380923ed28e34bed891abc8fc21856630345bf6078366"
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 1258 (2024) — Food regulation.

For provisions governing home based food products, repeals the term "potentially hazardous food product" and defines "time temperature control for safety food". Requires a local health department to: (1) issue a mobile retail food establishment permit and inspect a mobile retail food establishment in accordance with administrative rules adopted by the Indiana department of health (state department); and (2) establish an annual permit fee not to exceed $200. Requires a local health department, not later than January 1, 2025, to begin: (1) receiving applications for mobile retail food establishments; (2) collecting annual permit fees; (3) issuing mobile retail food establishment permits; and (4) conducting inspections of mobile retail food establishments. Prohibits, beginning January 1, 2025, a person from operating a mobile retail food establishment without a mobile retail food establishment permit from the local health department. Provides that a local health department may not adopt standards concerning mobile retail food establishments that are more stringent than the rules adopted by the state 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/123/2024/house/bills/HB1258/HB1258.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1258/HB1258.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1258/HB1258.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1258/HB1258.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1258 - Johnson T — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1258 - King — **90–2** (pass) · lower
- HB 1258 - Johnson T - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1258 - King - 3rd Reading — **74–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Joanna King — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Lorissa Sweet — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Authored by Representative King
- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Representative Sweet L added as coauthor
- **2024-01-30** Representative Barrett added as coauthor
- **2024-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 139: yeas 74, nays 22 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Johnson T, Charbonneau, Donato
- **2024-02-06** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Amendment #2 (Johnson T) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 221: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Senator Doriot added as cosponsor
- **2024-03-04** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2024-03-04** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2024-03-04** House conferees appointed: King and Shackleford
- **2024-03-04** House advisors appointed: Sweet, Barrett and Fleming
- **2024-03-01** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Charbonneau and Yoder
- **2024-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Johnson T and Ford J.D.
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 327: yeas 90, nays 2
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 315: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Public Law 151 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/787e3bdf-440d-4df2-bd55-fdc0473ca084`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).