republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1208.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Administration of sheriff's commissary fund."
description: "Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1208"
citation: "Indiana HB 1208 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADDICTION SERVICES; Illicit Drugs", "Prescription Drugs", "Substances", "and Alcohol", "AGENCIES; Department of Corrections (DOC)", "AGENCIES; State Board of Accounts (SBOA)", "AUDITS AND AUDITORS (Non-Elected)", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Abuse and Domestic Violence (Excluding Animals)", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Academy and Training", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; County Sheriffs' Departments", "LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; Sheriffs", "PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Clark", "Gregory Steuerwald"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5cece103-8017-4e78-b5d6-e43270ae378e"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1208"
source_hash: "750dc1ca343d2c1b1e2f49f39bb454f5e411a8b09eaa825a0efc715e6b443e87"
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 1208 (2025) — Administration of sheriff's commissary fund.

Requires the state board of accounts to establish annual or biennial training requirements for a sheriff and the sheriff's designee responsible for the oversight or administration of a jail commissary fund (fund). Requires a sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body on a quarterly basis. (Current law requires the sheriff to provide a copy of the record of receipts and disbursements for the fund to the county fiscal body semiannually.) Provides that the fund may be used to pay for an audit or review of the fund by an independent certified public accountant for years in which the fund is not audited by the state board of accounts or otherwise required to be audited by an independent certified public accountant in a manner approved by the state board of accounts.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1208/HB1208.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1208/HB1208.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1208/HB1208.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1208/HB1208.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1208 - Clark - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1208 - Steuerwald — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1208 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brett Clark — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Chris May — coauthor (person)
- Daryl Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Lehman — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representatives Lehman, May, Gore
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Senate sponsor: Senator Clark
- **2025-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 67: yeas 88, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-19** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-18** Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 247: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-24** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 303: yeas 95, nays 0
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-10** Public Law 54 `became-law`
- **2025-04-10** 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/5cece103-8017-4e78-b5d6-e43270ae378e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).