---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wake boarding and wake surfing."
description: "Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a public freshwater lake. Establishes a penalty. Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a small lake."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1062"
citation: "Indiana HB 1062 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities", "Damages", "and Penalties", "NATURAL RESOURCES; Lakes", "Ponds", "and Reservoirs", "TRANSPORTATION; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Abbott", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-12-05"
last_action: "2026-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c80854d0-1344-4741-afeb-482c5e633be8"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1062"
source_hash: "fc9b6bb6052c29f1ec8fc430ae309e6eba58de09486793b2dd55c1ce01441fb0"
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 1062 (2026) — Wake boarding and wake surfing.

Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a public freshwater lake. Establishes a penalty. Specifies restrictions that apply to wake boarding or wake surfing on a small lake.

## 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/124/2026/house/bills/HB1062/HB1062.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1062/HB1062.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1062/HB1062.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1062/HB1062.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1062 - Abbott - 3rd Reading — **77–19** (pass) · lower
- HB 1062 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **34–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Abbott — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Dave Heine — coauthor (person)
- Tony Isa — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-05** Authored by Representative Abbott
- **2025-12-05** Coauthored by Representatives Isa, Heine, Jackson C
- **2025-12-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 68: yeas 77, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Glick
- **2026-01-23** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-01-26** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 199: yeas 34, nays 11 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-20** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Public Law 154 `became-law`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-12** 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/c80854d0-1344-4741-afeb-482c5e633be8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).