republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1558.md

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Bill	Employment of minor league baseball players.	Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of "employee" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1558	Indiana HB 1558 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL) SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics)	enacted	Blake Doriot David Niezgodski Heath VanNatter Linda Rogers	4	22	2	2025-01-21	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1558	c99f4d15b3bc4192ea71fa475a7e68cabdedbf265bcb14b3211a5729becccdda	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1558 (2025) — Employment of minor league baseball players.

Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of "employee" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

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 1558 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1558 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blake Doriot — primary (person)
• David Niezgodski — primary (person)
• Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
• Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
• Cory Criswell — coauthor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
• Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative VanNatter
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
• 2025-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-04 Representatives Barrett, Criswell, Gore added as coauthors
• 2025-02-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-24 Senator Niezgodski added as second sponsor
• 2025-03-24 Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
• 2025-03-24 Senator Pol added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Senator Hunley added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-26 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-10 Public Law 67 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).