---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment of minor league baseball players."
description: "Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of \"employee\" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1558"
citation: "Indiana HB 1558 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL)", "SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Niezgodski", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1558"
source_hash: "c99f4d15b3bc4192ea71fa475a7e68cabdedbf265bcb14b3211a5729becccdda"
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 1558 (2025) — Employment of minor league baseball players.

Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of "employee" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

## 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/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1558 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1558 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
- Cory Criswell — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative VanNatter
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Representatives Barrett, Criswell, Gore added as coauthors
- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Senator Niezgodski added as second sponsor
- **2025-03-24** Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
- **2025-03-24** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Senator Hunley added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 67 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).