republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1559.md

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Bill	Construction manager as constructor.	Provides that when a public agency chooses to employ a construction manager as constructor (CMc) on a public works project, the applicable contract award standard for the project is "lowest and best". Increases the maximum amount of work a CMc may perform on a project from 20% of the total value of a project to 30% of the total value of a project.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1559	Indiana HB 1559 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Administration (IDOA) CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Contracts Procurements and Purchases STATE GOVERNMENT; Public Works and Improvements	enacted	Heath VanNatter Linda Rogers Scott Baldwin	4	23	3	2025-01-21	2025-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/18c58e4a-759e-4a89-96b1-2659d4470070	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1559	652cbe6a7b64346802640f0210237c393f623d1c60c8cfd90ec45ca47d46ec6d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1559 (2025) — Construction manager as constructor.

Provides that when a public agency chooses to employ a construction manager as constructor (CMc) on a public works project, the applicable contract award standard for the project is "lowest and best". Increases the maximum amount of work a CMc may perform on a project from 20% of the total value of a project to 30% of the total value of a project.

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 1559 - VanNatter — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1559 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1559 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
• Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
• Chuck Moseley — coauthor (person)
• David Niezgodski — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative VanNatter
• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Representative Moseley added as coauthor
• 2025-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 91, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Senate sponsor: Senator Baldwin
• 2025-02-14 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Pensions and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-24 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Senator Rogers added as second sponsor
• 2025-03-24 Senators Niezgodski and Hunley added as cosponsors
• 2025-03-26 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 292: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-03 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-03 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 368: yeas 90, nays 0
• 2025-04-07 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-16 Public Law 95 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18c58e4a-759e-4a89-96b1-2659d4470070. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).