republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1557.md

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Bill	Prescribed burning.	Defines "prescribed burn". Provides for the following: (1) Requirements to be met before a person conducts a prescribed burning. (2) That a certified prescribed burn manager and a completed prescribed burn plan must be present during a prescribed burning. (3) Certain civil liability immunities related to conducting a prescribed burn and the prescribed burn certification program. (4) Under certain conditions, exemption of prescribed burning from certain local regulations. (5) That a prescribed burning and the smoke produced by the prescribed burning do not constitute a nuisance. (6) That the division of forestry shall administer the training and certification program for prescribed burning. Limits damages for injuries or losses as result of a prescribed burn to actual damages.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1557	Indiana HB 1557 (2025)	bill	CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities Damages and Penalties NATURAL RESOURCES; Forests and Forestry PROPERTY; Generally	enacted	Beau Baird Susan Glick	4	22	3	2025-01-21	2025-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d5636a21-ddea-4435-97ea-b573293d617c	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1557	5f531554a42c8189aa6bb50e43d52365aeb78ed7ffaed6670d29c5e6f25d62e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1557 (2025) — Prescribed burning.

Defines "prescribed burn". Provides for the following: (1) Requirements to be met before a person conducts a prescribed burning. (2) That a certified prescribed burn manager and a completed prescribed burn plan must be present during a prescribed burning. (3) Certain civil liability immunities related to conducting a prescribed burn and the prescribed burn certification program. (4) Under certain conditions, exemption of prescribed burning from certain local regulations. (5) That a prescribed burning and the smoke produced by the prescribed burning do not constitute a nuisance. (6) That the division of forestry shall administer the training and certification program for prescribed burning. Limits damages for injuries or losses as result of a prescribed burn to actual damages.

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 1557 - Baird - 3rd Reading — 73–15 (pass) · lower
• HB 1557 - Baird — 80–10 (pass) · lower
• HB 1557 - Glick - 3rd Reading — 38–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beau Baird — primary (person)
• Susan Glick — primary (person)
• Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
• Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
• Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative Baird
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #1 (Boy) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
• 2025-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Senate sponsor: Senator Glick
• 2025-02-05 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 73, nays 15 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Representative Aylesworth added as coauthor
• 2025-02-04 Representatives Karickhoff and Bauer added as coauthors
• 2025-02-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 38, nays 9 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-14 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-17 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 488: yeas 80, nays 10
• 2025-04-21 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-22 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-30 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-30 Public Law 124 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5636a21-ddea-4435-97ea-b573293d617c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).