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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Live streaming and archiving meetings."
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description: "Requires governing bodies of state and local agencies (excluding a state supported college or university) to provide, on a publicly accessible platform: (1) live transmissions of public meetings; and (2) an archive of copies of the live transmissions with links to any meeting agendas, minutes, or memoranda. Provides that if a governing body does not have Internet capability for live transmission of public meetings, the governing body shall record the meeting. Provides that transmissions and recordings of public meetings may be destroyed after 90 days."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 1167"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1167 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities", "PUBLIC AGENCIES", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "TECHNOLOGY"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ben Smaltz", "James Buck", "Mike Gaskill", "Tyler Johnson"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-10"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a037042e-5bbe-4389-94e9-6665b9b019cd"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1167"
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source_hash: "55b2c821aad87433c6792d1619dd9f03c8aae65c97fa9023d61bcb9f75e77e31"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1167 (2023) — Live streaming and archiving meetings.
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Requires governing bodies of state and local agencies (excluding a state supported college or university) to provide, on a publicly accessible platform: (1) live transmissions of public meetings; and (2) an archive of copies of the live transmissions with links to any meeting agendas, minutes, or memoranda. Provides that if a governing body does not have Internet capability for live transmission of public meetings, the governing body shall record the meeting. Provides that transmissions and recordings of public meetings may be destroyed after 90 days.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.04.ENGH)
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2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.06.ENRS)
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3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.03.COMH)
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4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.02.COMH)
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5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.05.COMS)
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6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1167/versions/HB1167.01.INTR)
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## Votes
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- HB 1167 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
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- James Buck — primary (person)
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- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
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- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
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- David Abbott — coauthor (person)
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- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
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- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-10** Authored by Representative Smaltz
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- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-01-24** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
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- **2023-01-24** Representatives Pressel, Miller D, Abbott D added as coauthors
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- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-02-13** Amendment #2 (Smaltz) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2023-02-13** Amendment #3 (Miller K) failed; Roll Call 99: yeas 31, nays 64 `amendment-failure, failure`
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- **2023-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Buck, Gaskill, Johnson
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- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 121: yeas 86, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 303: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
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- **2023-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2023-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 392: yeas 89, nays 5
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- **2023-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Public Law 127 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a037042e-5bbe-4389-94e9-6665b9b019cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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