Ethan Manning

Manning voted NO on SB 1 (2025), the property tax relief package — one of three Republicans to break with the caucus on that bill (Source 5). He voted YES on SB 1 (2026), the Medicaid/SNAP verification and work-requirements bill (Source 6). The Freedom Index rates his cumulative pro-liberty score at 47%, with 55% in 2023–24 and 33% in 2021–22. His fiscal record is mixed between the two SB 1 votes and a lower-than-average Freedom Index cumulative score.

Manning served as a coauthor of HB 1032 (2025 special session) amendments and voted YES on the redistricting bill's final passage per the House's 57–41 tally; the Long Beach legislative report lists him as active in December session committees. He authored an amendment to the foreign-interests bill HB 1025 (2025), which passed. His Freedom Index cumulative score of 47% reflects some votes against limited-government principles.

Manning was a coauthor of HB 1084 (2024), the 2A Privacy Act protecting firearms purchase and transaction records (Source 7), and a coauthor of HB 1296 (2022), constitutional carry, which eliminated Indiana's handgun license requirement (Source 8).

SB 236 (2026) died in the House Public Health Committee before a floor vote; no individual House member vote was recorded. No additional direct public statement by Manning on pro-life issues was found in sources reviewed.

Manning scored 86% on the IFI 2025 Legislative Scorecard, voting YES on HB 1041 (Save Women's College Sports), HB 1102 (religious liberty), HB 1348 (homeschool nondiscrimination), SB 143 (Parental Rights), SB 289 (DEI prohibition), and SB 442, but voting NO on SB 287 (school board partisan transparency) (Source 4). He scored 100% on the IFI 2023 scorecard (Source 9).