SB0121: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Engrossed Senate Bill (H)
• Current Chamber: house
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows.

Legislators

Actions (11 total)

• Mar 3, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
• Jan 31, 2025, 9:47 AM: Referred to the House
• Jan 30, 2025, 9:50 AM: House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves
• Jan 30, 2025, 9:47 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 44, nays 4
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:30 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:30 AM: Amendment #1 (Deery) prevailed; voice vote
• Jan 23, 2025, 10:25 AM: Senator Clark B added as coauthor
• Jan 16, 2025, 5:57 AM: Senator Tomes added as coauthor
• Jan 14, 2025, 8:36 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Jan 8, 2025, 10:21 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
• Jan 8, 2025, 10:21 AM: Authored by Senators Deery, Crider, Baldwin

Digest

Prohibits the use of specific devices to take minnows from a waterway unless certain conditions are met. Provides an exemption for bait dealers and individuals with a scientific purposes license. Requires, not later than July 1, 2030, that the department of natural resources submit a report to legislative council regarding Sugar Creek's environmental condition and the status of the fish and wildlife population at Sugar Creek.