---
type: "Bill"
title: "Notice of a public hearing or meeting."
description: "Provides that the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) may, not later than 10 days after the last day of a public comment period, decide to hold a public hearing or meeting before the issuance or denial of a permit. Requires the department to provide notice if a public hearing or meeting will be held."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1276"
citation: "Indiana HB 1276 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Edmond Soliday", "Eric Koch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b637cdd-0ff9-488f-92e5-a7da4a396b8e"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1276"
source_hash: "49eed9700d7a8fbde1d4bda2483873e1a7990baa73ce114c4106853e711a9c9b"
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 1276 (2024) — Notice of a public hearing or meeting.

Provides that the commissioner of the department of environmental management (department) may, not later than 10 days after the last day of a public comment period, decide to hold a public hearing or meeting before the issuance or denial of a permit. Requires the department to provide notice if a public hearing or meeting will be held.

## 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/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1276/HB1276.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1276 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1276 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Dave Hall — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-01-23** Representative Hall D added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2024-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Senator Zay added as second sponsor
- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-03-05** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 66 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7b637cdd-0ff9-488f-92e5-a7da4a396b8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).