republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1208.md

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Bill	Administration of sheriff's commissary fund.	Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1208	Indiana HB 1208 (2025)	bill	ADDICTION SERVICES; Illicit Drugs Prescription Drugs Substances and Alcohol AGENCIES; Department of Corrections (DOC) AGENCIES; State Board of Accounts (SBOA) AUDITS AND AUDITORS (Non-Elected) BOARDS COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS; Generally CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children COUNTY GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Abuse and Domestic Violence (Excluding Animals) LAW ENFORCEMENT; Academy and Training LAW ENFORCEMENT; County Sheriffs' Departments LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; Sheriffs PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Generally	enacted	Brett Clark Gregory Steuerwald	4	22	3	2025-01-08	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/5cece103-8017-4e78-b5d6-e43270ae378e	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1208	750dc1ca343d2c1b1e2f49f39bb454f5e411a8b09eaa825a0efc715e6b443e87	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1208 (2025) — Administration of sheriff's commissary fund.

Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.

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 1208 - Clark - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1208 - Steuerwald — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1208 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — 88–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Clark — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
• Chris May — coauthor (person)
• Daryl Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative Steuerwald
• 2025-01-08 Coauthored by Representatives Lehman, May, Gore
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Senate sponsor: Senator Clark
• 2025-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 67: yeas 88, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-17 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-19 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-18 Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 247: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-20 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-03-24 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 303: yeas 95, nays 0
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-10 Public Law 54 became-law
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cece103-8017-4e78-b5d6-e43270ae378e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).