republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1292.md

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Bill	Professional sports development commission.	Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1292	Indiana HB 1292 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Transportation (INDOT) AGENCIES; Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) BOARDS COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS; Newly Created CITIES; Gary CITIES; Hammond CITIES; South Bend COUNTIES; Lake COUNTIES; Porter COUNTIES; St. Joseph SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics) STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Governor ZONING AND PLANNING	enacted	Earl Harris Ed Charbonneau Rodney Pol Ryan Mishler	4	25	3	2025-01-13	2025-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/9ff78173-5ff8-4958-a898-595a8218cab7	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1292	388ef2a8b14d7f6429c0a6abd0215c2bec6a1750a29237048868b86d1d7daf90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1292 (2025) — Professional sports development commission.

Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund.

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 1292 - Mishler - 3rd Reading — 46–2 (pass) · upper
• HB 1292 - Harris - 3rd Reading — 83–6 (pass) · lower
• HB 1292 - Harris — 75–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Earl Harris — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• Rodney Pol — primary (person)
• Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
• Andy Zay — cosponsor (person)
• Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
• Ethan Manning — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy O'Brien — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Authored by Representative Harris
• 2025-01-13 Coauthored by Representative Manning
• 2025-01-27 Representatives O'Brien and Miller D added as coauthors
• 2025-02-03 Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• 2025-02-03 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Senate sponsors: Senators Mishler, Pol, Charbonneau
• 2025-02-18 Cosponsor: Senator Zay
• 2025-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 83, nays 6 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-09 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 359: yeas 46, nays 2 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-16 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 469: yeas 75, nays 7
• 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
• 2025-04-30 Public Law 119 became-law
• 2025-04-30 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ff78173-5ff8-4958-a898-595a8218cab7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).