republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/hb-1242.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State purchasing."
description: "Requires the department of administration (department) to determine the technological upgrades and other expenditures required to collect and compile information regarding purchases made by state agencies from the following: (1) A minority business enterprise. (2) A nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities. (3) A veteran owned small business. (4) A women's business enterprise. Provides that if a nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities (qualified agency) withdraws from a department pilot project through which the qualified agency sells products or services to governmental bodies through a third party contractor, the department must award the qualified agency a quantity purchase agreement (QPA) for the same products and services and under the same terms, except for price, under which the qualified agency had a QPA with the department before participating in the pilot project. Provides that the qualified agency must agree to provide the same products or services at a price less than the price provided for the products or services under the pilot project. Requires a state agency to purchase supplies or services from a QPA for those supplies or services awarded to a qualified agency. Requires the department, in consultation with the committee for the purchase of supplies and services of individuals with a disability, to adopt administrative rules to establish a goal to procure in each state fiscal year at least 1.5% of state contracts with qualified agencies. Provides that this goal must be administered so as not to diminish any other state contracting goals established under existing law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1242"
citation: "Indiana HB 1242 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATION", "STATE DEPARTMENT OF", "MINORITIES AND MINORITY BUSINESSES", "PUBLIC CONTRACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chip Perfect", "Doug Miller", "James Buck", "Linda Rogers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4907d38c-eabc-4dc7-b036-73da275919b5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1242"
source_hash: "bdcf2fc64557a1ad2ec10e7725ae8abd99483a4fd33f403929a482fc24ab695b"
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 HB 1242 (2022) — State purchasing.

Requires the department of administration (department) to determine the technological upgrades and other expenditures required to collect and compile information regarding purchases made by state agencies from the following: (1) A minority business enterprise. (2) A nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities. (3) A veteran owned small business. (4) A women's business enterprise. Provides that if a nonprofit agency for individuals with disabilities (qualified agency) withdraws from a department pilot project through which the qualified agency sells products or services to governmental bodies through a third party contractor, the department must award the qualified agency a quantity purchase agreement (QPA) for the same products and services and under the same terms, except for price, under which the qualified agency had a QPA with the department before participating in the pilot project. Provides that the qualified agency must agree to provide the same products or services at a price less than the price provided for the products or services under the pilot project. Requires a state agency to purchase supplies or services from a QPA for those supplies or services awarded to a qualified agency. Requires the department, in consultation with the committee for the purchase of supplies and services of individuals with a disability, to adopt administrative rules to establish a goal to procure in each state fiscal year at least 1.5% of state contracts with qualified agencies. Provides that this goal must be administered so as not to diminish any other state contracting goals established under existing law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1242/versions/HB1242.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1242/versions/HB1242.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1242/versions/HB1242.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1242/versions/HB1242.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1242 - Perfect - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chip Perfect — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Coauthored by Representative Pressel
- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Miller D
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20** Representative Harris added as coauthor
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsors: Senators Perfect and Buck
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 79: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Senator Rogers added as third sponsor
- **2022-02-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 298: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to dissent filed
- **2022-03-02** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** House conferees appointed: Miller D and Bartlett
- **2022-03-02** House advisors appointed: Abbott, Manning and Harris
- **2022-03-02** Senate conferees appointed: Perfect and Breaux
- **2022-03-02** Senate advisors appointed: Buck and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 362: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2022-03-08** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 351: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-18** Public Law 166
- **2022-03-18** 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/4907d38c-eabc-4dc7-b036-73da275919b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).