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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: "Executive sessions."
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description: "Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 1134"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1134 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MEETINGS", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Ben Smaltz", "James Buck"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc7bc9c2-091c-4bcc-9166-5f04bb818055"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1134"
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source_hash: "92299d2de0f78a1134ec13800692b86531ff1e195527dc9a1456ea58ec96465b"
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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 1134 (2025) — Executive sessions.
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Allows meetings of a state or local agency governing body concerning the following topics to be held in executive session: (1) Employee health care options with respect to special exceptions to coverage. (2) Employee specific compensation or employment matters of individual employees (excluding general discussion of employee compensation during a budget process). (3) Employee handbook changes. (3) Review of negotiations on the performance of publicly bid contracts, when public knowledge may result in increased cost. (4) Solicitation of contract proposals containing a bidder's proprietary information.
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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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1134/HB1134.03.ENGH.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1134/HB1134.05.ENRS.pdf)
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3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1134/HB1134.04.COMS.pdf)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1134/HB1134.01.INTR.pdf)
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## Votes
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- HB 1134 - Smaltz — **67–13** (pass) · lower
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- HB 1134 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper
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- HB 1134 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **91–4** (pass) · lower
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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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- Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Davis
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- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Smaltz
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- **2025-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-13** Amendment #1 (Smaltz) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 91, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-17** Senate sponsor: Senator Buck
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 324: yeas 47, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-02** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-04-15** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2025-04-16** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 465: yeas 67, nays 13
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- **2025-04-17** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-01** Public Law 158 `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/bc7bc9c2-091c-4bcc-9166-5f04bb818055`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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