Indiana Code Title 4. State Offices and Administration § 4-22-2-23.1

Sec. 23.1. Before or after an agency submits a request to the budget agency and the office of management and budget under section 22.8 of this chapter, the agency may solicit comments from all or any segment of the public on the need for a rule, the drafting of a rule, or any other subject related to a rulemaking action.  The procedures that the agency may use include the holding of conferences and the inviting of written suggestions, facts, arguments, or views.  An agency's failure to consider comments received under this section does not invalidate a rule subsequently adopted.