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Bill Covered persons for restricted addresses. Provides that a regular, paid firefighter and a volunteer firefighter are "covered persons" under the statute that requires local government units that operate a public data base website containing the names and addresses of property owners to restrict disclosure to the general public of the covered person's home address. Removes an obsolete date reference. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2023 HB 1578 Indiana HB 1578 (2023)
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FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
PRIVACY
RIGHT TO
PUBLIC RECORDS
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Jack Sandlin
Scott Alexander
Timothy O'Brien
Vaneta Becker
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Indiana HB 1578 (2023) — Covered persons for restricted addresses.

Provides that a regular, paid firefighter and a volunteer firefighter are "covered persons" under the statute that requires local government units that operate a public data base website containing the names and addresses of property owners to restrict disclosure to the general public of the covered person's home address. Removes an obsolete date reference.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

  • HB 1578 - Alexander - 3rd Reading — 490 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
  • Scott Alexander — primary (person)
  • Timothy O'Brien — primary (person)
  • Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
  • Dan Dernulc — cosponsor (person)
  • Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
  • J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
  • James Tomes — cosponsor (person)
  • Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
  • Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
  • Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
  • Scott Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
  • Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
  • Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-19 Authored by Representative O'Brien
  • 2023-01-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-02-07 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-02-09 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-02-13 Representatives Bartels, Miller D, Summers added as coauthors
  • 2023-02-13 Senate sponsors: Senators Alexander and Sandlin
  • 2023-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 109: yeas 99, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-02-14 Referred to the Senate referral
  • 2023-02-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-03-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-03-27 Senator Becker added as third sponsor
  • 2023-03-27 Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
  • 2023-03-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 273: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-03-28 Senator Baldwin added as cosponsor
  • 2023-03-28 Senators Pol, Bohacek, Tomes, Dernulc added as cosponsors
  • 2023-03-28 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
  • 2023-03-29 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
  • 2023-04-03 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2023-04-04 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2023-04-17 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2023-04-20 Public Law 91 became-law
  • 2023-04-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70ee415f-08a3-4abd-a696-8c78d83a9351. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).