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type: "Bill"
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title: "Appointed officials."
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description: "Requires disclosure of the appointing authority and term of an appointed public officer: (1) in the meeting notice and agenda of the board on which the public officer is appointed to serve; and (2) on the board's website or appointing authority's website, if any. Provides that if the appointing authority or board does not have a website, the information must be published on the Internet through the computer gateway administered by the office of technology."
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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 1509"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1509 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Eric Koch"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-21"
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last_action: "2025-04-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c29d04b-9cb5-444e-bf99-738466131451"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1509"
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source_hash: "61482565e7697839dfb68a966ac291e40b3c0012545e98a144d8dcd2ea9e6399"
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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 1509 (2025) — Appointed officials.
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Requires disclosure of the appointing authority and term of an appointed public officer: (1) in the meeting notice and agenda of the board on which the public officer is appointed to serve; and (2) on the board's website or appointing authority's website, if any. Provides that if the appointing authority or board does not have a website, the information must be published on the Internet through the computer gateway administered by the office of technology.
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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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1509/HB1509.04.ENRS.pdf)
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2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1509/HB1509.03.COMS.pdf)
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3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1509/HB1509.02.COMH.pdf)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1509/HB1509.01.INTR.pdf)
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## Votes
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- HB 1509 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
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- HB 1509 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Edward Clere — primary (person)
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- Eric Koch — primary (person)
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- Jack Jordan — coauthor (person)
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- Wendy Dant Chesser — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-21** Coauthored by Representatives Jordan and Dant Chesser
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- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Clere
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- **2025-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-21** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2025-02-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
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- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-25** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-10** Public Law 65 `became-law`
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- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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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/4c29d04b-9cb5-444e-bf99-738466131451`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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