SB0280: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources.
Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM (America/Indianapolis).
General Information
- Stage: Enrolled Senate Bill (S)
- Current Chamber: senate
- Origin Chamber: senate
- Description: Deer hunting.
Legislators
Authors (3)
Coauthors (1)
Sponsors (1)
Cosponsors (3)
Advisors (0)
Conferees (0)
Actions (28 total)
- Apr 15, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the Governor
- Apr 8, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President of the Senate
- Apr 2, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the Speaker
- Apr 1, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Apr 1, 2025, 11:29 AM: Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 331: yeas 46, nays 1
- Mar 31, 2025, 12:04 PM: Motion to concur filed
- Mar 28, 2025, 4:24 AM: Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Mar 27, 2025, 7:43 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 320: yeas 92, nays 0
- Mar 25, 2025, 10:37 AM: Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
- Mar 25, 2025, 9:48 AM: Amendment #1 (Lindauer) prevailed; voice vote
- Mar 24, 2025, 10:06 AM: Placed back on second reading
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:07 AM: Representative Greene added as cosponsor
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:06 AM: Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
- Mar 17, 2025, 9:49 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Mar 13, 2025, 8:01 AM: Representative Commons added as cosponsor
- Mar 13, 2025, 7:44 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
- Mar 3, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
- Feb 5, 2025, 11:25 AM: Referred to the House
- Feb 4, 2025, 11:33 AM: House sponsor: Representative Lindauer
- Feb 4, 2025, 11:29 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 50, nays 0
- Feb 3, 2025, 12:09 PM: Senator Raatz added as coauthor
- Feb 3, 2025, 12:09 PM: Senator Johnson T added as third author
- Feb 3, 2025, 9:57 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
- Feb 3, 2025, 9:57 AM: Amendment #1 (Baldwin) prevailed; voice vote
- Jan 27, 2025, 8:36 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
- Jan 16, 2025, 6:28 AM: Senator Garten added as second author
- Jan 13, 2025, 6:51 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
- Jan 13, 2025, 6:51 AM: Authored by Senator Baldwin
Digest
Provides that, for a hunting season beginning after June 30, 2025, rifles may be used to hunt deer on public property subject to certain restrictions. Removes certain rifle case length limitations and provides that a hunter may use a rifle chambered for a centerfire rifle cartridge that fires a bullet that is at least five and fifty-six hundredths (5.56) of a millimeter in diameter or larger to hunt deer. Prohibits the department of natural resources from adopting rules regarding centerfire rifle case length limitations.