Indiana element journey spending below new transparency legislation

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indiana state officers spent tens of hundreds of taxpayer {dollars} on journey within the first yr below a brand new transparency legislation requiring detailed reporting of presidency journeys.

The State Budget Agency launched journey experiences from 19 state officers and cupboard members, exhibiting bills totaling practically $100,000. The new legislation, which went took impact in July, requires the governor’s cupboard to offer a report back to the finances committee stating the aim and placement of every journey taken in an official capability whether or not in-state or out of state, the whole journey bills incurred, and the state fund used to pay for every journey taken.

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Secretary of State Diego Morales tops Indiana leaders within the complete quantity spent on journey at $33,124. His out-of-state journeys included journeys to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and three journeys to Washington, D.C., together with one for President Trump’s Inauguration. The journey to Puerto Rico for the National Association of Secretary of States price Hoosier taxpayers greater than $4,200.

State Comptroller Elise Nieshalla had the second highest journey bills. Her $11,000 report included two journeys to Denver, Colorado, Charlotte, North Carolina, Orlando, Florida, Anchorage, Alaska, and Washington D.C. Nieshalla’s costliest journey was to the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers in Charlotte.

Indiana Treasurer of State Daniel Elliott racked up practically $9,300 in journey bills. More than $5,700 was used for gasoline. The costliest of these costs was $620 in July 2025.

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Governor Mike Braun recorded practically $8,300 in documented journey. Nearly half of that complete comes from a visit to Trine University in Angola. It was paid for by the ISP Aviation Rotary Fund, which additionally included a $720 cost for a visit to the Indianapolis 500. The Governor’s Office logged 144 journey bills in its report back to the State Budget Committee.

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Secretary of Education Dr. Katie Jenner recorded greater than $6,400 in journey bills. Many of her bills included nationwide conferences in Salt Lake City, Aspen, Washington D.C., San Diego, Austin, and Boston. Her costliest journey was a $1,376 journey to Austin, Texas to talk about STEM Jobs of Tomorrow at SXSW.

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Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith recorded 110 journeys primarily for talking occasions. The report reveals most of Beckwith’s spending comes from gasoline bills, which features a $1,272 gasoline invoice in May 2025. Beckwith’s complete expenditures had been simply shy of $4,300.

Attorney General Todd Rokita recorded 100 journeys on the state’s dime, which totaled as much as $4,381. All of them listed the aim of journey as “Official Business.” Among the Attorney General’s journeys embrace 5 journeys to the nation’s capital, together with a one-day journey in September 2024, which got here with a $2,200 invoice to taxpayers.

• Secretary of State Diego Morales: $33,124
• Comptroller Elise Nieshalla: $11,916.61
• Treasurer Daniel Elliott: $9,287.14
• Governor Mike Braun: $8,264.85
• Secretary of Education Kate Jenner: $6,442.50
• Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith: $4,285.10
• Attorney General Todd Rokita: $4,381.11
• Secretary Jennifer-Ruth Green: $3,476.00
• Secretary of Commerce David Adams: $2,985.50
• Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources Suzanne Jaworowski: $2,500.00
• Secretary of Business Affairs Mike Speedy: $2,250.00
• Secretary of Transportation & Infrastructure Matthew Ubelhor: $2,100.00
• Secretary Health and Family Services Glorida Sachdev: $1,950.00
• Chief of Staff Josh Kelley: $1,800.00
• Brigadier General Lawrence Muennich (Adjutant General): $1,500.00
• Brigadier General Dale Lyles (Adjutant General): $1,200.00
• Former ISP Superintendent Doug Carter: $900.00
• Current ISP Superintendent Anthony Scott: $600.00
• Secretary of Office of Management and Budget: Lisa Hershman: $0

You can even maintain observe of how a lot particular person companies spend on journey by the Indiana Transparency Portal. For instance, the Department of Child Services made greater than 21,000 journey expense transactions totaling $3,710,169.42. Its essentially the most out of any state company.