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type: "Bill"
title: "County contracts."
description: "Provides that for counties other than Marion County, contracts entered into by the county (including contracts executed by county elected officers) must meet certain requirements. Allows the county executive to adopt an ordinance that delegates authority to other county elected officers and employees to approve contracts. Requires county elected officers to have certain contracts: (1) executed by the county executive; or (2) submitted for review by the county attorney and county executive. Provides that if the county attorney advises the county executive that a contract of a county elected officer does not comply with state law or the public purchasing or bidding laws, the county executive may disapprove the contract. Allows the county executive to void a contract if a county officer fails to comply with the review process."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1158"
citation: "Indiana HB 1158 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; County Sheriffs' Departments", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Contracts", "Procurements", "and Purchases"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Matt Lehman", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b039ee0f-5d0a-4cac-8a1b-1850188c96e3"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1158"
source_hash: "526ebb805a961541673e3b20f95b07ad9905adb4cd953a7212eeb7783b1ed559"
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 1158 (2024) — County contracts.
Provides that for counties other than Marion County, contracts entered into by the county (including contracts executed by county elected officers) must meet certain requirements. Allows the county executive to adopt an ordinance that delegates authority to other county elected officers and employees to approve contracts. Requires county elected officers to have certain contracts: (1) executed by the county executive; or (2) submitted for review by the county attorney and county executive. Provides that if the county attorney advises the county executive that a contract of a county elected officer does not comply with state law or the public purchasing or bidding laws, the county executive may disapprove the contract. Allows the county executive to void a contract if a county officer fails to comply with the review process.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.06.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.04.ENGH.pdf)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.07.ENRS.pdf)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.03.COMH.pdf)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.05.COMS.pdf)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1158/HB1158.01.INTR.pdf)
## Votes
- HB 1158 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · upper
- HB 1158 - Lehman - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1158 - Lehman — **91–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Matt Lehman — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
- Blake Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Chris May — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Lehman
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Amendment #1 (Meltzer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Amendment #2 (Zimmerman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Holdman and Garten
- **2024-01-22** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2024-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 20: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** Representatives May, Steuerwald, Johnson, Zimmerman added as coauthors
- **2024-01-23** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-01-25** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Amendment #1 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Amendment #2 (Holdman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 219: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-05** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 278: yeas 91, nays 0
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Public Law 139 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-13** 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/b039ee0f-5d0a-4cac-8a1b-1850188c96e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).