republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1134.md

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Bill	Executive sessions.	Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1134	Indiana HB 1134 (2025)	bill	COUNTY GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally	enacted	Ben Smaltz James Buck	4	21	3	2025-01-08	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/bc7bc9c2-091c-4bcc-9166-5f04bb818055	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1134	92299d2de0f78a1134ec13800692b86531ff1e195527dc9a1456ea58ec96465b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1134 (2025) — Executive sessions.

Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information.

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. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1134 - Smaltz — 67–13 (pass) · lower
• HB 1134 - Buck - 3rd Reading — 47–1 (pass) · upper
• HB 1134 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — 91–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
• James Buck — primary (person)
• Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Coauthored by Representative Davis
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative Smaltz
• 2025-02-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Amendment #1 (Smaltz) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-17 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 91, nays 4 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-17 Senate sponsor: Senator Buck
• 2025-02-18 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 324: yeas 47, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-02 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-15 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-16 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 465: yeas 67, nays 13
• 2025-04-17 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Public Law 158 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc7bc9c2-091c-4bcc-9166-5f04bb818055. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).