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type: "Bill"
title: "Indiana department of administration."
description: "Allows the Indiana department of administration (department) to implement category management for purchasing and contracting by state agencies. Amends the nomination and appointment process for a state agency's purchasing representative. Requires the department to establish and maintain an independent verification and validation oversight program for contracts entered into by state agencies. Requires state agencies to submit an annual procurement and purchasing plan to the department and the budget agency. Repeals provisions concerning the ability of the Indiana war memorials commission to enter into contracts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "Indiana SB 226 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Administration (IDOA)", "AGENCIES; Generally", "AGENCIES; State Budget Agency (SBA)", "ARMED FORCES; Generally", "BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases", "STATE GOVERNMENT; History", "Culture", "and Preservation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Matt Lehman", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-08"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12a1ad40-5757-4bcd-b31a-cc2a4b3dc005"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0226"
source_hash: "2ad5f08f2fc91a5864732952b4c061a77c82f56b04d82b9861194a4fa1b959a9"
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 SB 226 (2026) — Indiana department of administration.
Allows the Indiana department of administration (department) to implement category management for purchasing and contracting by state agencies. Amends the nomination and appointment process for a state agency's purchasing representative. Requires the department to establish and maintain an independent verification and validation oversight program for contracts entered into by state agencies. Requires state agencies to submit an annual procurement and purchasing plan to the department and the budget agency. Repeals provisions concerning the ability of the Indiana war memorials commission to enter into contracts.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0226/SB0226.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 226 - Lehman - 2nd Reading — **3354** (fail) · lower
- SB 226 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **450** (pass) · upper
- SB 226 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **910** (pass) · lower
- SB 226 - Baldwin — **491** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Alaina Shonkwiler — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senator Baldwin
- **2026-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-26** Senator Garten added as second author
- **2026-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 112: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2026-01-28** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-29** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-09** Representative Shonkwiler added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-12** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 239: yeas 33, nays 54 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 255: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-26** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 305: yeas 49, nays 1
- **2026-02-26** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-03-05** Public Law 125 `became-law`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12a1ad40-5757-4bcd-b31a-cc2a4b3dc005`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).