republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/hb-1130.md

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Bill	Open meetings.	Requires a governing body of a school corporation (school board) to allow each member of the public attending a meeting (attendee) the opportunity to provide oral public comment. Allows a school board to permit oral public comment at a public meeting that is conducted electronically during a state or local disaster emergency. Restricts the circumstances in which the governing body of a state or local public agency may hold a virtual meeting during a declared disaster emergency without any of the governing body members physically present.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	HB 1130	Indiana HB 1130 (2022)	bill	EDUCATION generally LOCAL GOVERNMENT PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS STATE AGENCIES	enacted	James Buck Mark Messmer Timothy O'Brien Vaneta Becker	5	27	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/911efaa2-7257-43af-bbfd-521c4d74fd4c	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1130	709933a0ef09649c53bea77ca6bf90fb7c9423b38aa63854750a2d359c8167af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1130 (2022) — Open meetings.

Requires a governing body of a school corporation (school board) to allow each member of the public attending a meeting (attendee) the opportunity to provide oral public comment. Allows a school board to permit oral public comment at a public meeting that is conducted electronically during a state or local disaster emergency. Restricts the circumstances in which the governing body of a state or local public agency may hold a virtual meeting during a declared disaster emergency without any of the governing body members physically present.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1130 - O'Brien T - 3rd Reading — 92–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• James Buck — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Timothy O'Brien — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Erin Houchin — cosponsor (person)
• Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)
• Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Coauthored by Representatives Teshka and Bartels
• 2022-01-04 Authored by Representative O'Brien
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 Representative Davis M added as coauthor
• 2022-01-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-24 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-25 Senate sponsors: Senators Buck, Becker, Messmer
• 2022-01-25 Cosponsor: Senator Houchin
• 2022-01-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 72: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-26 Referred to the Senate
• 2022-02-02 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-17 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-17 Senator Crane added as cosponsor
• 2022-02-21 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Placed back on second reading reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Amendment #5 (Buck) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-02-28 Amendment #4 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 270: yeas 11, nays 39 amendment-failure
• 2022-02-28 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 34, nays 11 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-03-02 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-03-02 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 91, nays 1 amendment-failure
• 2022-03-04 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-14 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-14 Public Law 116

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/911efaa2-7257-43af-bbfd-521c4d74fd4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).