Files
2026-07-06 17:27:20 -04:00

147 lines
13 KiB
Markdown
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "Bill"
title: "State fiscal and contracting matters."
description: "Allows a state agency to use artificial intelligence software to prepare information and projections for the state budget. Requires a state agency to provide a quarterly report to the budget committee that details the requests submitted by the state agency for new federal funds or to participate in a new federal program. Provides that, in addition to the quarterly reports, a state agency may not immediately accept an award of new federal funds in certain circumstances or participate in a new federal program before a report has been reviewed by the budget committee. Specifies the contents of the report that must be submitted for budget committee review. Requires a state agency to provide the state comptroller with a contract for inclusion in the Indiana transparency website not later than 30 days after the contract is fully executed. Requires that permanent full-time positions which have been vacant for 90 days or more be reviewed and either reauthorized or eliminated by the budget director. Requires the budget director to provide a quarterly report to the governor's office regarding those positions that were reauthorized or eliminated by the budget director in the preceding three months. Requires a state agency to provide quarterly reports to the budget committee regarding the state agency's active contracts. Provides for the reversion of funds appropriated to a state agency for expenses related to a contract that are unused after the end of the contract term. Requires the department of administration (department) to develop certain contract language to be included in state contracts of $500,000 or more. Requires a state agency to provide a report to the budget committee concerning amendments to a contract that: (1) increase the maximum contract amount by not less than $500,000; or (2) for a contract with an initial maximum contract amount of not less than $500,000, extend the term of the contract by not less than six months. Prohibits a state agency from entering into a nonpublic contract. Requires all contract opportunities of state agencies to be posted in the form of a request for proposals or a request for quotations on the department's website at least 30 days prior to the contract being awarded. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to do the following: (1) Review monthly reports on the Medicaid program service utilization to identify trends and risks within the state Medicaid program. (2) Post publicly on the office of the secretary of family and social services's website monthly financial reports or expenditures and revenues for each state Medicaid program and commentary providing context for each monthly financial report. (3) Submit a quarterly report to the budget committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "Indiana SB 5 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)", "AGENCIES; Generally", "AGENCIES; State Budget Agency (SBA)", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Budget Committee", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Budget and Appropriations", "HEALTH; Medicaid", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Comptroller", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Federal Funding", "TECHNOLOGY; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Matt Lehman", "Ryan Mishler", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7257db50-2188-4938-84bd-5f9aae556fa3"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0005"
source_hash: "7caf75b405ab656bb67c00614ce9489882a65579e6bb80678bec7ddd47298643"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana SB 5 (2025) — State fiscal and contracting matters.
Allows a state agency to use artificial intelligence software to prepare information and projections for the state budget. Requires a state agency to provide a quarterly report to the budget committee that details the requests submitted by the state agency for new federal funds or to participate in a new federal program. Provides that, in addition to the quarterly reports, a state agency may not immediately accept an award of new federal funds in certain circumstances or participate in a new federal program before a report has been reviewed by the budget committee. Specifies the contents of the report that must be submitted for budget committee review. Requires a state agency to provide the state comptroller with a contract for inclusion in the Indiana transparency website not later than 30 days after the contract is fully executed. Requires that permanent full-time positions which have been vacant for 90 days or more be reviewed and either reauthorized or eliminated by the budget director. Requires the budget director to provide a quarterly report to the governor's office regarding those positions that were reauthorized or eliminated by the budget director in the preceding three months. Requires a state agency to provide quarterly reports to the budget committee regarding the state agency's active contracts. Provides for the reversion of funds appropriated to a state agency for expenses related to a contract that are unused after the end of the contract term. Requires the department of administration (department) to develop certain contract language to be included in state contracts of $500,000 or more. Requires a state agency to provide a report to the budget committee concerning amendments to a contract that: (1) increase the maximum contract amount by not less than $500,000; or (2) for a contract with an initial maximum contract amount of not less than $500,000, extend the term of the contract by not less than six months. Prohibits a state agency from entering into a nonpublic contract. Requires all contract opportunities of state agencies to be posted in the form of a request for proposals or a request for quotations on the department's website at least 30 days prior to the contract being awarded. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services and the office of Medicaid policy and planning to do the following: (1) Review monthly reports on the Medicaid program service utilization to identify trends and risks within the state Medicaid program. (2) Post publicly on the office of the secretary of family and social services's website monthly financial reports or expenditures and revenues for each state Medicaid program and commentary providing context for each monthly financial report. (3) Submit a quarterly report to the budget committee.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0005/SB0005.04.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0005/SB0005.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0005/SB0005.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0005/SB0005.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 5 - Lehman — **901** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 - Lehman - 2nd Reading — **6827** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 - Lehman — **6328** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **921** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 - Baldwin — **480** (pass) · upper
- SB 5 - Lehman - 2nd Reading — **6530** (pass) · lower
- SB 5 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
- Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Craig Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Cyndi Carrasco — coauthor (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- Danny Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Kyle Walker — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Randy Maxwell — coauthor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-14** Senator Mishler added as third author
- **2025-01-14** Senator Garten added as second author
- **2025-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Authored by Senator Baldwin
- **2025-01-16** Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
- **2025-01-23** Senators Randolph, Holdman, Bassler added as coauthors
- **2025-01-23** Senators Doriot, Zay, Deery added as coauthors
- **2025-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** Senators Freeman, Clark, Glick added as coauthors
- **2025-01-28** Senators Walker K, Goode, Young M added as coauthors
- **2025-01-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 27: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2025-01-28** Cosponsor: Representative Snow
- **2025-01-28** Senators Alexander, Buchanan, Busch, Leising, Donato added as coauthors
- **2025-01-28** Senators Buck, Walker G, Byrne, Bohacek added as coauthors
- **2025-01-28** Senators Maxwell, Koch, Gaskill, Alting, Niezgodski added as coauthors
- **2025-01-28** Senators Raatz, Carrasco, Dernulc, Johnson T, Tomes added as coauthors
- **2025-01-29** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Representative Lopez added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Appeal the ruling of the chair (Porter); ruling of the chair sustained Roll Call 384: yeas 63, nays 28
- **2025-04-07** Amendment #2 (Lopez) prevailed; Roll Call 385: yeas 65, nays 30 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Amendment #1 (Porter) ruled out of order
- **2025-04-07** Amendment #5 (Lehman) prevailed; Roll Call 383: yeas 68, nays 27 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 388: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2025-04-14** House conferees appointed: Lehman and DeLaney
- **2025-04-14** House advisors appointed: Snow, Lopez and Porter
- **2025-04-14** Senate advisors appointed: Pol and Garten
- **2025-04-14** Senate conferees appointed: Baldwin and Niezgodski
- **2025-04-22** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2025-04-22** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2025-04-23** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 488: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2025-04-23** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 524: yeas 90, nays 1
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 182 `became-law`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7257db50-2188-4938-84bd-5f9aae556fa3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).