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type: "Bill"
title: "Meet and confer for public safety employees."
description: "Allows an employer or an exclusive recognized representative of full-time employees of a police or fire department (exclusive representative) to request, in specified circumstances, an advisory opinion from the commissioner of labor (commissioner). Specifies a process by which an employer or exclusive representative may appeal in certain instances to the commissioner to request mediation and conciliation. Makes technical corrections and a conforming amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Indiana SB 76 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FIREFIGHTERS; FIREFIGHTERS' PENSIONS AND BENEFITS", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "State Department and Agencies", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "Police Pensions and Benefits", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Michael Young", "Philip Boots", "Randall Frye"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbc1e62a-ef6f-421e-bd3b-5b2b68fa7df8"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/76"
source_hash: "fa3d6a083f4021a40ef26816472fce600020c867bcdb1ca1d4528e331e65a9b3"
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 76 (2022) — Meet and confer for public safety employees.
Allows an employer or an exclusive recognized representative of full-time employees of a police or fire department (exclusive representative) to request, in specified circumstances, an advisory opinion from the commissioner of labor (commissioner). Specifies a process by which an employer or exclusive representative may appeal in certain instances to the commissioner to request mediation and conciliation. Makes technical corrections and a conforming amendment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0076/versions/SB0076.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 76 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **930** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Morris — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Boots
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 7: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-11** House sponsor: Representative Frye R
- **2022-01-11** Senator Doriot added as second author
- **2022-01-11** Senator Young M added as third author
- **2022-01-11** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2022-01-12** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-20** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Reassigned to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Representative Morris added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-15** Representative Gore M added as cosponsor
- **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 228: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-23** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-24** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 263: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 6
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-07** 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/cbc1e62a-ef6f-421e-bd3b-5b2b68fa7df8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).