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type: "Bill"
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title: "Employment of minor league baseball players."
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description: "Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of \"employee\" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement."
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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 1558"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1558 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Labor (DOL)", "SPORTS AND ATHLETICS (Not Including Schools or Higher Education Athletics)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "David Niezgodski", "Heath VanNatter", "Linda Rogers"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 22
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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/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1558"
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source_hash: "c99f4d15b3bc4192ea71fa475a7e68cabdedbf265bcb14b3211a5729becccdda"
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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 1558 (2025) — Employment of minor league baseball players.
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Provides that a person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement is excluded from the definition of "employee" for purposes of the minimum wage law. Provides that a record of daily and weekly hours and wages is not required for any person who has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor league level and is compensated under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
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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/HB1558/HB1558.04.ENRS.pdf)
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2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.03.COMS.pdf)
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3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.02.COMH.pdf)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1558/HB1558.01.INTR.pdf)
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## Votes
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- HB 1558 - VanNatter - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
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- HB 1558 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
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- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
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- Heath VanNatter — primary (person)
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- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
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- Andrea Hunley — cosponsor (person)
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- Brad Barrett — coauthor (person)
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- Cory Criswell — coauthor (person)
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- Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)
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- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (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** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative VanNatter
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- **2025-01-30** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
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- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 93: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2025-02-04** Representatives Barrett, Criswell, Gore added as coauthors
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- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-24** Senator Niezgodski added as second sponsor
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- **2025-03-24** Senator Doriot added as third sponsor
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- **2025-03-24** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-25** Senator Hunley added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-03-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-10** Public Law 67 `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/872135e8-bf1d-4560-9cff-67764b615747`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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