republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1027.md

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Bill	Fire department work schedule.	Provides that a fire department may deviate from the required maximum work hours for members of the fire department only if authorized by a collective bargaining agreement, memorandum of understanding, or other similar written mutual agreement with an exclusive recognized representative of employees of the fire department.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1027	Indiana HB 1027 (2024)	bill	FIREFIGHTERS; Fire Departments and Districts LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining Benefits and Wages LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Generally LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Unions	enacted	James Tomes Matt Hostettler	4	20	2	2024-01-08	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/28545ff4-60e4-4b15-ac57-6fbe9aa076a6	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1027	d97d8781fbfad9434784e8116ff3ff4884d37e5c7d81e9731fb2ad5d7d225707	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1027 (2024) — Fire department work schedule.

Provides that a fire department may deviate from the required maximum work hours for members of the fire department only if authorized by a collective bargaining agreement, memorandum of understanding, or other similar written mutual agreement with an exclusive recognized representative of employees of the fire department.

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 1027 - Hostettler - 3rd Reading — 93–1 (pass) · lower
• HB 1027 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• James Tomes — primary (person)
• Matt Hostettler — primary (person)
• Blake Johnson — coauthor (person)
• Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
• Chris May — coauthor (person)
• J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Representative Hostettler
• 2024-01-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Representatives May, Borders, Johnson added as coauthors
• 2024-01-31 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 106: yeas 93, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-31 Senate sponsor: Senator Tomes
• 2024-02-01 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 202: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-28 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2024-03-04 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-05 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 43 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/28545ff4-60e4-4b15-ac57-6fbe9aa076a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).