republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/hb-1090.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alcohol matters."
description: "Removes the requirements that: (1) an oil refinery be located within a municipal lakefront development project; and (2) a municipal lakefront development project must be funded in part with local, state, and federal money. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to provide notice to the city or town council and the mayor's office of the city or town in which a municipal lakefront development is located of certain hearings. Requires the commission to post signs indicating when and where certain hearings will take place."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1090"
citation: "Indiana HB 1090 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Alcohol and Tobacco Commission", "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES", "Licenses", "Permits", "and Taxes", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Earl Harris", "Ed Charbonneau", "Eddie Melton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7a6e5ca-198d-4fd1-a0a1-c487b2e7bb7b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1090"
source_hash: "85ce533e56a761728568d815de5e29248aef9a4377d60e175b6f20a5598787d4"
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 1090 (2021) — Alcohol matters.

Removes the requirements that: (1) an oil refinery be located within a municipal lakefront development project; and (2) a municipal lakefront development project must be funded in part with local, state, and federal money. Requires the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission) to provide notice to the city or town council and the mayor's office of the city or town in which a municipal lakefront development is located of certain hearings. Requires the commission to post signs indicating when and where certain hearings will take place.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1090/versions/HB1090.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1090/versions/HB1090.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1090/versions/HB1090.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1090/versions/HB1090.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1090/versions/HB1090.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1090 - Harris - 3rd Reading — **95–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Earl Harris — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Eberhart — coauthor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-04** Coauthored by Representatives Eberhart, Summers, Soliday
- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Harris
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Melton
- **2021-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 177: yeas 95, nays 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-30** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-08** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #2 (Alting) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #1 (Melton) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 412: yeas 42, nays 7 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-14** Motion to dissent filed
- **2021-04-14** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-15** House conferees appointed: Smaltz and Harris
- **2021-04-15** House advisors appointed: Bartels, Lucas and Summers
- **2021-04-15** Senate conferees appointed: Charbonneau and Melton
- **2021-04-15** Senate advisors appointed: Alting and Niezgodski
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2021-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 479: yeas 83, nays 5
- **2021-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 472: yeas 48, nays 1
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 172

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7a6e5ca-198d-4fd1-a0a1-c487b2e7bb7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).