republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-134.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appropriation of donated money."
description: "Adds language specifying that a political subdivision that conducts or administers an election may not accept private money donations to prepare, administer, or conduct elections or to employ individuals on a temporary basis for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, including registering voters. Requires all state agencies to submit to the budget agency a report of each individual state employee employed by the state agency whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Provides that if the donation of money is to the secretary of state, the report shall specify whether the money was or will be distributed to political subdivisions for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, and, if so, the specific types of uses for which the donated money will be used by those political subdivisions. Requires the budget agency to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual state employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be posted and made available on the Indiana transparency portal. Requires all local units of government to submit to the state board of accounts (SBA) a report of each individual local unit of government employee employed by the local unit of government whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Requires the SBA to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual local unit of government employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be made available to the public. Defines \"local unit of government\" for purposes of the reporting requirement. Specifies that the term does not include hospitals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 134"
citation: "Indiana SB 134 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS", "PUBLIC FUNDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel Leonard", "Jon Ford", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f005227-fa7a-42f0-bf92-4578bf23040d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/134"
source_hash: "9325632251f78095f9188e676f03ce55e9bb48df6f9a064ec6b72a14464a24d2"
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 SB 134 (2022) — Appropriation of donated money.

Adds language specifying that a political subdivision that conducts or administers an election may not accept private money donations to prepare, administer, or conduct elections or to employ individuals on a temporary basis for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, including registering voters. Requires all state agencies to submit to the budget agency a report of each individual state employee employed by the state agency whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Provides that if the donation of money is to the secretary of state, the report shall specify whether the money was or will be distributed to political subdivisions for preparing, administering, or conducting elections, and, if so, the specific types of uses for which the donated money will be used by those political subdivisions. Requires the budget agency to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual state employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be posted and made available on the Indiana transparency portal. Requires all local units of government to submit to the state board of accounts (SBA) a report of each individual local unit of government employee employed by the local unit of government whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money. Requires the SBA to annually submit to the budget committee a report of the information that specifies and identifies each individual local unit of government employee whose salary is funded in whole or in part from donated money, which must be made available to the public. Defines "local unit of government" for purposes of the reporting requirement. Specifies that the term does not include hospitals.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0134/versions/SB0134.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0134/versions/SB0134.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0134/versions/SB0134.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0134/versions/SB0134.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0134/versions/SB0134.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 134 - Leonard - 3rd Reading — **66–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daniel Leonard — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Don Lehe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- **2022-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 104: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Leonard
- **2022-01-31** Cosponsor: Representative Lehe
- **2022-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 253: yeas 67, nays 25 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-03** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 332: yeas 43, nays 4 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-11** Public Law 87
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f005227-fa7a-42f0-bf92-4578bf23040d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).