Votes at a glance: key bills the Indiana House passed on April 8, 2025

The Indiana House on April 8 took final action on multiple Senate bills. Below are the bills recorded in the session transcript, with outcomes and the roll-call tallies where the transcript provides them.

Votes at a glance

- Senate Bill 5 (fiscal integrity, contract reporting): Passed; transcript roll-call: 91 ayes, 1 no. Key points: requires reporting of contracts over $500,000 to budget agency (except specified vertical projects and qualified legal counsel); reporting and transparency requirements; monthly Medicaid oversight reporting in a separate section led by the Medicaid office (sponsor: Representative Lehman).

- Senate Bill 26 (criminal law: signal jamming / critical infrastructure): Passed; roll-call: 88 ayes, 6 nays. Key points: creates a level 6 felony for intentional use, sale or possession of signal-jamming devices and expands definition of critical infrastructure to include wires and equipment used to provide communications services (sponsor: Representative Webb).

- Senate Bill 103 (environmental / Lake and Porter County emissions study): Passed; roll-call: 91 ayes, 1 nay. Key points: directs study and testing related to emissions testing that the state currently administers under a federal containment zone in northwest Indiana (sponsor: Representative Slager).

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