Indiana House Bill 1285 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 14 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-14 - Coauthored by Representative Clere
Pending: House Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the department of natural resources (department) to: (1) identify, study, and gather information about the aquifers directly connected with the Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River; (2) establish and maintain a common data base containing the information gathered about those aquifers; (3) submit to the water resources study committee a status report concerning the study conducted and the information gathered; and (4) develop water conservation measures for the river basins of the Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River that are consistent with water conservation measures developed by the department for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin. Requires the water resources study committee to study issues concerning water distribution systems relevant to the river basins of the Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River and identify and examine measures necessary to the development of a plan to create a stable grid linking those water distribution systems.

Wabash, White, and Ohio Rivers aquifer study.

Rep. Steven Stemler [D]

Rep. Edward Clere [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-14	House	Coauthored by Representative Clere
2014-01-14	House	First Reading: Referred to Natural Resources
2014-01-13	House	Authored by Representative Stemler.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/house/1285/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/f/a/3/0fa36d36/HB1285.01.INTR.pdf