On June 13, 2023, House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Biotechnology, and Research Chairman Jim Baird led his Hoosier House colleagues in highlighting several bipartisan Hoosier priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill.
On June 13, 2023, Congressman Jim Baird (IN-04) voted to overturn a Biden Administration rule put forward by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that would reclassify firearms with a stabilizing brace as short-barreled rifles to require special registration or else be surrendered, destroyed, or confiscated with severe criminal penalties for otherwise law-abiding Americans.