republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1092.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial responsibility for aircraft."
description: "Amends the definition of \"operation of aircraft\" or \"operate aircraft\" for purposes of the aircraft financial responsibility act. Increases the minimum amount of loss resulting from bodily injury, death, or property damage in an aircraft accident required to be reported to the Indiana department of transportation (department) from $100 to $7,500. Requires certain information to be included in a report of an aircraft accident. Requires the owner or operator of an aircraft to provide the information required to be reported to the department to a damaged or injured party or a damaged or injured party's representative upon request. Removes the department from a provision allowing certain entities to maintain an action to enjoin a person from engaging in the operation of an aircraft for failure to comply with the aircraft financial responsibility requirements. Specifies how payments shall be made from a security deposit. Specifies the fee for service of process on the secretary of state. Adds an additional insured to certain provisions in the aircraft financial responsibility act. Makes corresponding changes. Makes technical corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1092"
citation: "Indiana HB 1092 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Transportation (INDOT)", "INSURANCE; Generally", "TRANSPORTATION; Aircraft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Byrne", "Peggy Mayfield", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc192f44-92b8-4cce-8d3b-79d9e7910063"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1092"
source_hash: "888e1d0f4281339be46d92c4c2126c69fdfb0e0d9ee796c1f1bb01d042b5e97b"
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 1092 (2024) — Financial responsibility for aircraft.

Amends the definition of "operation of aircraft" or "operate aircraft" for purposes of the aircraft financial responsibility act. Increases the minimum amount of loss resulting from bodily injury, death, or property damage in an aircraft accident required to be reported to the Indiana department of transportation (department) from $100 to $7,500. Requires certain information to be included in a report of an aircraft accident. Requires the owner or operator of an aircraft to provide the information required to be reported to the department to a damaged or injured party or a damaged or injured party's representative upon request. Removes the department from a provision allowing certain entities to maintain an action to enjoin a person from engaging in the operation of an aircraft for failure to comply with the aircraft financial responsibility requirements. Specifies how payments shall be made from a security deposit. Specifies the fee for service of process on the secretary of state. Adds an additional insured to certain provisions in the aircraft financial responsibility act. Makes corresponding changes. Makes technical corrections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1092/HB1092.03.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1092/HB1092.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1092/HB1092.04.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1092/HB1092.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1092 - Mayfield - 3rd Reading — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- HB 1092 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Blake Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Speedy — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Mayfield
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Roads and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Representatives Pressel, Speedy, Johnson added as coauthors
- **2024-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Amendment #1 (Mayfield) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-05** Senate sponsor: Senator Donato
- **2024-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 132: yeas 96, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Senator Byrne added as second sponsor
- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 250: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-03-05** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 50 `became-law`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc192f44-92b8-4cce-8d3b-79d9e7910063`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).