republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1478.md

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Bill	Pro bono legal services fee.	Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1478	Indiana HB 1478 (2025)	bill	CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally COURTS; Attorneys COURTS; Generally COURTS; Probate Court and Proceedings COURTS; Small Claims Courts STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller	enacted	Alex Zimmerman Ed Charbonneau Eric Koch Rodney Pol	4	20	2	2025-01-21	2025-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1478	ff522b807934bd8848bd5deb50acac0ffacbfe5206c765281583a39d7e84cc84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1478 (2025) — Pro bono legal services fee.

Removes the sunset provision for pro bono legal services fees.

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 1478 - Zimmerman - 3rd Reading — 90–1 (pass) · lower
• HB 1478 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 48–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alex Zimmerman — primary (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Rodney Pol — primary (person)
• Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
• Garrett Bascom — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Coauthored by Representatives Bascom and DeLaney
• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative Zimmerman
• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-03 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-06 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-10 Senate sponsors: Senators Koch, Charbonneau, Pol
• 2025-02-10 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 116: yeas 90, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-11 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-03 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 348: yeas 48, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-08 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-08 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-15 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-22 Public Law 106 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c86f7ab0-c1f5-41bc-8bf7-539812730879. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).