HB 1196: Membership of aviation boards. - Indiana

House Bill (S) → House Bill (H) · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill has been engrossed and passed by the House, then reported favorably by the Senate. The primary changes are procedural updates including new sponsor information, revised dates reflecting the legislative timeline, and formatting updates to indicate the bill is now in its final engrossed form.

TIMELINE

Updated dates throughout the document to reflect the current legislative status, changing from January 27, 2025 to March 11, 2025 for the final version.

Added new legislative action entries showing the bill was read second time, ordered engrossed, read third time, and passed by the House on January 30, 2025.

TECHNICAL

Added Senate sponsor information (Senator Donato) and additional committee members (Bartels) to the bill header.

Changed bill designation from HB 1196 to EH 1196 to indicate the engrossed version that has passed both chambers.

Enrolled House Bill (H) → House Bill (S) · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill amends Indiana's aviation commission and airport authority laws to exempt smaller communities from political party membership requirements for board members. The changes clarify that eligible entities with populations under 38,000 are not subject to limits on how many board members can belong to the same political party.

Scope change

The bill expands an existing exemption for small communities to explicitly apply to both aviation boards and airport authorities, covering entities with populations under 38,000.

ELIGIBILITY

Added explicit exemption for eligible entities with populations under 38,000 from political party membership limits on aviation boards and airport authority boards.

REQUIREMENT

Modified IC 8-22-2-1 to remove political party restrictions for small communities and added IC 8-22-3-3.9 to extend this exemption to airport authority boards.

TECHNICAL

Changed document formatting from enrolled act style to standard house bill format with updated digest and citation information.

Introduced House Bill (H) → Enrolled House Bill (H) · 5 edits · Apr 1, 2025

MODERATE

This bill amends Indiana aviation board composition rules to exempt smaller entities (population under 38,000) from political party membership limits, while adding new provisions for counties with specific population ranges to adjust board sizes. The changes clarify eligibility criteria and modify appointment requirements for aviation commissioners and airport authorities.

Scope change

The bill expands applicability by adding exemptions for smaller entities and creating new appointment rules for counties with populations between 120,000-130,000 and 36,700-37,000, while removing the 38,000 population threshold from previous versions.

ELIGIBILITY

Political party membership restrictions for aviation boards no longer apply to eligible entities with populations under 38,000, whereas the introduced version included this exemption in the synopsis but not in the operative text.

REQUIREMENT

New subsections establish specific board size adjustments for counties with populations between 120,000-130,000 and 36,700-37,000, allowing county executives to add one member to create five-member boards.

Additional provisions allow counties with populations between 250,000-300,000 to have seven-member boards through appointments by county council and mayors of the two largest cities.

The bill adds a new section requiring eligible entities to adopt ordinances or resolutions to establish five-member boards with political party limits of no more than three members of the same party.

TECHNICAL

Formatting and structural changes include converting from introduced bill format to enrolled act format, adding printing code explanations, and reorganizing section numbering.

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