Votes at a glance: Indiana Senate adopts package of third‑reading bills

INDIANAPOLIS — During its March 11, 2025 session the Indiana Senate completed third reading on a series of House bills covering technical corrections, controlled substances, probate rules, procurement thresholds for public works, property-transfer language, workforce-development definitions, and child-custody technical corrections. Most measures passed unanimously or with lopsided margins; one measure (House Bill 11-22) drew extended debate and is covered in a separate article.

Key results from third reading:

- House Bill 10-50 (annual technical corrections): Passed, roll call recorded 48 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor: Senator Freeman. Supporters characterized it as non‑substantive housekeeping.

- House Bill 10-56 (controlled substances update): Passed, roll call recorded 49 ayes, 1 no. Sponsor: Senator Carrasco. The bill adds two drugs to the controlled‑substances list as part of the annual update.

- House Bill 10-88 (probate code updates): Passed, roll call recorded 49 ayes, 1 no. Sponsor: Senator Brown. The bill implements measures vetted by the probate commission and probate attorneys.

- House Bill 11-37 (red flag record expungement process): Passed, roll call recorded 49 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor: Senator Freeman. The bill allows people adjudicated or alleged dangerous but later found not dangerous to seek expungement/shielding of records from public view while preserving law enforcement access.

- House Bill 11-98 (local public works procurement threshold): Passed, roll call recorded 46 ayes, 3 nays. Sponsor: Senator Crider. The bill raises the threshold for required formal contracting from $250,000 to $375,000 and ties future increases to CPI; sponsors noted historical thresholds and local road/highway project impacts.

- House Bill 12-13 (corrective language on transfer-on-death deeds): Passed, roll call recorded 49 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor: Senator Baldwin. The bill corrects statute language distinguishing real property from personal property in transfer-on-death provisions.

- House Bill 12-89 (adopts federal definition of employment social enterprise): Passed, roll call recorded 49 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor: Senator Crider. Sponsors said adopting the federal definition could open federal funding opportunities for programs like Recycle Force that provide employment training for justice‑impacted Hoosiers.

- House Bill 16-26 (child custody orders; corrections to findings of fact language): Passed, roll call recorded 50 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor: Senator Brown. Sponsors described the bill as a technical fix to ensure courts make required findings of fact.

Several other bills on third reading were adopted by consent or passed without extended floor debate; the Senate also adopted nine committee reports and a special concurrent resolution honoring the Owen County Chamber of Commerce’s centennial.

Votes and next steps: Each passed measure will be transmitted to the House or the governor as required by legislative process; the record on the floor indicates House Bill 11-22 will be sent to the governor after the Senate passage described in a separate article.

For reporters: vote tallies and sponsor names above are drawn from the Senate floor record for March 11, 2025.