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Votes at a glance: key bills the Indiana House passed on April 8, 2025
Summary
The House recorded final passage on a range of Senate bills covering fiscal transparency, criminal law, education, environment and other topics. This roundup lists each bill, the floor outcome and the roll-call tally where recorded in the transcript.
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).
- Senate Bill 108 (charity gaming modernization): Passed; roll-call: 75 ayes, 17 nays. Key points: authorizes online/electronic raffles subject to Indiana Gaming Commission approval, removes some restrictions on net proceeds and adds audit requirements for high-grossing organizations (sponsor: Representative Manning).
- Senate Bill 142 (eviction sealing / tenant protections): Passed; roll-call: 86 ayes, 4 nays. Key points: clarifies sealing procedures for dismissed eviction cases and sets conditions for sealing where a money judgment was entered (sponsor: Representative Zimmerman).
- Senate Bill 146 (teacher compensation / education): Passed; roll-call: 90 ayes, 1 nay. Key points: raises minimum teacher salary floor to $45,000, requires DOE study of teacher health plan costs, creates paid parental leave for teachers (sponsor: Representative Teschka).
- Senate Bill 151 (statute of limitations for certain sex offenses): Passed; roll-call: 87 ayes, 0 nays. Key points: extends statute of limitations for certain convictions tied to discovery of DNA, recording or confession (sponsor: Representative Zimmerman).
- Senate Bill 259 (probable cause / de-identification of child victims, Miranda protections): Passed; roll-call: 90 ayes, 0 nays. Key points: requires conflicts of interest to be stated in probable cause, de-identifies child victims/witnesses and prevents undermining Miranda protections via third-party elicitation (sponsor: Representative Baskin).
- Senate Bill 324 (criminal law; fentanyl and related reforms): Passed; roll-call: 90 ayes, 0 nays. See separate article for detail.
- Senate Bill 366 / House-adopted education package (amendments and teacher-related changes summarizing House edits to Senate bill 3 66): Passed; roll-call: 62 ayes, 27 nays. Key points: multiple education provisions including superintendent licensing preference (not requirement), charter/building timelines, expansion of On My Way Pre-K provider eligibility, and bus-driver training feasibility study (sponsor: Representative Behning).
Other bills recorded in the transcript were also passed; where the transcript did not provide a roll-call tally for final passage, the entry below lists the outcome as recorded in the floor proceedings but notes that the transcript excerpt does not include a roll-call number.
- Senate Bill 473 (health / professional licensure and workforce issues): Final action recorded; roll-call tally not specified in the provided transcript excerpt. Key points from floor: multiple amendments concerning licensure pathways for foreign nurses (allow provisional licensure based on alien identification number and later conversion upon issuance of a Social Security number) and creation of oversight for CNAs, QMAs and home health aides including registry and appeals processes (presenter: Doctor Barrett).
- Senate Bill 463 (child-care staff-to-child ratios amendment): Amendment adopted on the floor; final bill action recorded; roll-call tally not specified in the provided excerpt. Key points: amendment prevents Indiana from adopting staff-to-child ratios less stringent than the average used by other states, requires annual review and publication of ratios by December 1.
How to read this list
- Tallies and outcomes are taken from the session transcript provided; where the transcript included a roll-call, that tally is cited. Where the transcript recorded passage without a roll-call tally in the excerpt, the entry notes the lack of a numeric roll-call. - This roundup is a floor-level summary of final actions and does not substitute for engrossed/enrolled bill text; readers should consult the enrolled bill text for precise statutory language and effective dates.
For follow-up: reporters and stakeholders may want to track the Senate's receipt of House amendments where the clerk notified the Senate and any subsequent conference or concurrence actions.
