SB0477: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources.
Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM (America/Indianapolis).
General Information
- Stage: Enrolled Senate Bill (S)
- Current Chamber: senate
- Origin Chamber: senate
- Description: Low head dams.
Legislators
Coauthors (0)
Sponsors (1)
Cosponsors (3)
Advisors (0)
Conferees (0)
Actions (21 total)
- Mar 31, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the Governor
- Mar 31, 2025, 8:00 PM: Public Law 14
- Mar 26, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President of the Senate
- Mar 23, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Mar 23, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the Speaker
- Mar 21, 2025, 7:22 AM: Returned to the Senate without amendments
- Mar 20, 2025, 9:00 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 91, nays 0
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:08 AM: Representative Boy added as cosponsor
- Mar 17, 2025, 10:08 AM: Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
- Mar 17, 2025, 9:50 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Mar 13, 2025, 7:46 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, 11:44 AM: Cosponsor: Representative Clere
- Feb 4, 2025, 11:43 AM: House sponsor: Representative Manning
- Feb 4, 2025, 11:42 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 76: yeas 49, nays 0
- Feb 3, 2025, 12:15 PM: Senator Glick added as second author
- Feb 3, 2025, 10:03 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Jan 28, 2025, 9:17 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Jan 13, 2025, 7:05 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
- Jan 13, 2025, 7:05 AM: Authored by Senator Busch
Digest
Provides that the state does not assume ownership of or responsibility for a low head dam that is not listed as owned by the state on the department of natural resources' (department) low head dam roster (roster). Permits a person to remove without a permit certain low head dams that are located on a navigable waterway and that are encroachments. Requires the department to establish warning sign standards and requirements for low head dams that are on the roster. Allows for a bond of $1,000,000 to serve as proof of financial responsibility for a person that owns a low head dam. Provides that a permit issued by the director after January 1, 2021, for the removal of a low head dam does not expire until two years after certain judicial appeal processes are complete.