republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1623.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administrative law."
description: "Establishes the government reform task force (task force). Provides for members of the task force. Requires the task force to submit a report. Prohibits the consideration of the number or amount of fines or civil penalties imposed on regulated entities by an employee in an agency's evaluation or compensation of the employee. Makes various procedural changes concerning the adoption of administrative rules, including the following: (1) Requires budget agency and office of management and budget review of a regulatory analysis of all proposed rules. (2) Requires a state budget committee review of rules adding or increasing fees, fines, or civil penalties. (3) Requires publication of the text of a proposed rule in the first public comment period and allows a proposed rule to be adopted after one public comment period if no substantive public testimony is received and the rule is not more stringent than applicable federal standards. (4) Replaces various laws granting emergency rulemaking authority with a description of the circumstances when emergency rulemaking (renamed \"provisional\" rules and \"interim\" rules) may be used, increases governor and attorney general oversight of provisional or interim rules, and adds a public comment period for interim rules. (5) Reduces from seven to five years the time in which rules need to be readopted to remain effective. (6) Requires agencies to webcast public hearings and allow remote testimony. Prohibits state standards for disposal of coal combustion residuals to be more stringent than federal standards. Allows for certain rules on certain pesticides that are more stringent than federal law. Permits a person to recover attorney's fees if an agency issues an order that is based on an invalid rule or issued without legal authority. Permits an applicant or licensee to recover damages if a professional or occupational licensing agency fails to adopt a rule required to obtain a license. Repeals superseded statutes and makes cross-reference, name, and other conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1623"
citation: "Indiana HB 1623 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; INDIANA REGISTER", "ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ENVIRONMENT generally", "GOVERNOR", "OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Chris Garten", "Eric Koch", "Steve Bartels"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa65ddbe-1919-4652-b2ea-0814b161da45"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1623"
source_hash: "14a0ec6ca9ede23e4765305d577440c7d2b6c7aadb9aa12d800e0159379abfe8"
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 1623 (2023) — Administrative law.

Establishes the government reform task force (task force). Provides for members of the task force. Requires the task force to submit a report. Prohibits the consideration of the number or amount of fines or civil penalties imposed on regulated entities by an employee in an agency's evaluation or compensation of the employee. Makes various procedural changes concerning the adoption of administrative rules, including the following: (1) Requires budget agency and office of management and budget review of a regulatory analysis of all proposed rules. (2) Requires a state budget committee review of rules adding or increasing fees, fines, or civil penalties. (3) Requires publication of the text of a proposed rule in the first public comment period and allows a proposed rule to be adopted after one public comment period if no substantive public testimony is received and the rule is not more stringent than applicable federal standards. (4) Replaces various laws granting emergency rulemaking authority with a description of the circumstances when emergency rulemaking (renamed "provisional" rules and "interim" rules) may be used, increases governor and attorney general oversight of provisional or interim rules, and adds a public comment period for interim rules. (5) Reduces from seven to five years the time in which rules need to be readopted to remain effective. (6) Requires agencies to webcast public hearings and allow remote testimony. Prohibits state standards for disposal of coal combustion residuals to be more stringent than federal standards. Allows for certain rules on certain pesticides that are more stringent than federal law. Permits a person to recover attorney's fees if an agency issues an order that is based on an invalid rule or issued without legal authority. Permits an applicant or licensee to recover damages if a professional or occupational licensing agency fails to adopt a rule required to obtain a license. Repeals superseded statutes and makes cross-reference, name, and other conforming changes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1623/versions/HB1623.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1623/versions/HB1623.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1623/versions/HB1623.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1623/versions/HB1623.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1623/versions/HB1623.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1623 - Garten - 3rd Reading — **30–18** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Jack Jordan — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Bartels
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Representatives Miller D and Jordan added as coauthors
- **2023-02-16** Amendment #1 (Boy) failed; Roll Call 143: yeas 27, nays 64 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Garten
- **2023-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 169: yeas 73, nays 24 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06** Senator Koch added as second sponsor
- **2023-04-11** Amendment #6 (Garten) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Amendment #5 (Walker K) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-11** Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; Roll Call 366: yeas 20, nays 28 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-04-11** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
- **2023-04-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 30, nays 18 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-17** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-17** Senator Johnson added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-18** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-18** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-18** House conferees appointed: Bartels and Campbell
- **2023-04-18** House advisors appointed: Miller D, Lehman and DeLaney
- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Garten and Pol
- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Koch
- **2023-04-26** Senator Koch removed as advisor
- **2023-04-26** Senator Pol removed as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Senator Koch added as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Representative Miller D removed as advisor
- **2023-04-26** Representative Campbell removed as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Representative Miller D added as conferee
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 513: yeas 29, nays 19
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 536: yeas 66, nays 28
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 249 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa65ddbe-1919-4652-b2ea-0814b161da45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).