Sec. 3. (a) The supervision of the preparation and indexing of the journals of the house of representatives and senate of each session of the general assembly shall be the duty of the clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate, respectively.

     (b) The clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate, respectively, shall determine the number of paper format and electronic format copies of the journals of each house that are prepared and the persons to whom paper format or electronic format copies are distributed. The clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate shall provide at least one (1) paper format or one (1) electronic format copy of the journals to each public library located in Indiana that participates in the federal depository library program. If distribution policies adopted by the clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate provide for distribution of the journals to state elected officials, state governmental agencies, public libraries, or, upon request, to official agencies in other states, one (1) paper format or one (1) electronic format copy shall be provided to a recipient without charge. The clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate, respectively, may impose a uniform charge for other distributed copies.

     (c) For all legislative sessions beginning after November 20, 2017, the legislative services agency shall provide public access to the journals of the house of representatives and the senate on the general assembly’s website. The journals may be viewed and copied from the Internet without charge.

Formerly: Acts 1972, P.L.18, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.72-2018, SEC.6; P.L.9-2024, SEC.11.