republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/hb-1060.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of administrative law proceedings."
description: "Allows a petition for review of an agency administrative action to be filed by mail, personal service, or electronic mail. (Current law requires a petition for review to be filed by mail or personal service.) Provides that the filing of a document in an administrative proceeding is considered complete on the date of electronic submission if the document is sent by electronic mail. Allows the ultimate authority of an agency to request that the office of administrative law proceedings (office) review a motion to disqualify an administrative law judge. Allows the department of child services to request that the office conduct administrative proceedings on certain administrative actions related to child support and certain substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect. Requires the office to maintain confidentiality in administrative proceedings concerning actions by the department of child services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1060"
citation: "Indiana HB 1060 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2e68d91-e034-4a36-b0f7-8f691eeeba8d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1060"
source_hash: "30603423104329613961772f6c3357b3dc64b06608d69a3236e6fc45e96ecb76"
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 1060 (2021) — Office of administrative law proceedings.

Allows a petition for review of an agency administrative action to be filed by mail, personal service, or electronic mail. (Current law requires a petition for review to be filed by mail or personal service.) Provides that the filing of a document in an administrative proceeding is considered complete on the date of electronic submission if the document is sent by electronic mail. Allows the ultimate authority of an agency to request that the office of administrative law proceedings (office) review a motion to disqualify an administrative law judge. Allows the department of child services to request that the office conduct administrative proceedings on certain administrative actions related to child support and certain substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect. Requires the office to maintain confidentiality in administrative proceedings concerning actions by the department of child services.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1060/versions/HB1060.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1060/versions/HB1060.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1060/versions/HB1060.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1060/versions/HB1060.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1060/versions/HB1060.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1060 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Borders, Jeter, DeLaney
- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Amendment #1 (Steuerwald) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 24: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-01** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch, Brown L, Freeman
- **2021-02-01** Cosponsor: Senator Taylor G
- **2021-02-02** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 213: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-11** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2021-03-11** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-23** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-25** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-01** Public Law 13

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2e68d91-e034-4a36-b0f7-8f691eeeba8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).