republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1509.md

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Bill	Appointed officials.	Requires disclosure of the appointing authority and term of an appointed public officer: (1) in the meeting notice and agenda of the board on which the public officer is appointed to serve; and (2) on the board's website or appointing authority's website, if any. Provides that if the appointing authority or board does not have a website, the information must be published on the Internet through the computer gateway administered by the office of technology.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1509	Indiana HB 1509 (2025)	bill	COUNTY GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally PUBLIC RECORDS STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally	enacted	Edward Clere Eric Koch	4	18	2	2025-01-21	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/4c29d04b-9cb5-444e-bf99-738466131451	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1509	61482565e7697839dfb68a966ac291e40b3c0012545e98a144d8dcd2ea9e6399	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1509 (2025) — Appointed officials.

Requires disclosure of the appointing authority and term of an appointed public officer: (1) in the meeting notice and agenda of the board on which the public officer is appointed to serve; and (2) on the board's website or appointing authority's website, if any. Provides that if the appointing authority or board does not have a website, the information must be published on the Internet through the computer gateway administered by the office of technology.

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 1509 - Clere - 3rd Reading — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1509 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Edward Clere — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jack Jordan — coauthor (person)
• Wendy Dant Chesser — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Coauthored by Representatives Jordan and Dant Chesser
• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative Clere
• 2025-02-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-21 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-20 Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
• 2025-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 89, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 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 65 became-law
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c29d04b-9cb5-444e-bf99-738466131451. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).