Indiana House Bill 1601 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Passed on May 4 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-05-04 - Public Law 247
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Exemption from permitting requirements. Provides that a forestry operation that conducts its operations in compliance with the Indiana Logging and Forestry Best Management Practices Field Guide published by the Indiana department of natural resources is exempt from any requirement to obtain a permit from the department of natural resources or the department of environmental management concerning forestry activities confined to a waterway that has a watershed not greater than 10 square miles. Defines forestry operation. Defines waterway.

Exemption from permitting requirements.

Rep. Beau Baird [R]	Rep. Shane Lindauer [R]	Rep. John Prescott [R]	Sen. Susan Glick [R]
Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Chris Garten [R]

2023-04-27 - Senate - Senate - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-04-26 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 87 N: 7 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2023-03-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-14 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 91 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 6) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-05-04	House	Public Law 247
2023-05-04	House	Signed by the Governor
2023-05-01	House	Signed by the Speaker
2023-04-28	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2023-04-28	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2023-04-27	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 512: yeas 49, nays 0
2023-04-26	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 520: yeas 87, nays 7
2023-04-26	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2023-04-26	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2023-04-20	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Leising and Qaddoura
2023-04-20	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Glick and Breaux
2023-04-20	House	House advisors appointed: Lindauer, Abbott, Prescott and Jackson
2023-04-20	House	House conferees appointed: Baird and Boy
2023-04-19	House	House dissented from Senate amendments
2023-04-19	House	Motion to dissent filed
2023-03-29	Senate	Returned to the House with amendments
2023-03-28	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 49, nays 0
2023-03-27	Senate	Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed
2023-03-27	Senate	Amendment #4 (Glick) prevailed; voice vote
2023-03-20	Senate	Placed back on second reading
2023-03-16	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-03-13	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-02-27	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
2023-02-15	House	Referred to the Senate
2023-02-14	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 91, nays 2
2023-02-14	House	Senate sponsors: Senators Glick, Leising, Garten
2023-02-13	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2023-02-13	House	Representative Prescott added as coauthor
2023-02-09	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2023-01-30	House	Representative Lindauer added as coauthor
2023-01-19	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
2023-01-19	House	Authored by Representative Baird

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#1.INTR
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#2.COMH
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#3.COMS
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#4.ENGS
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#5.ENRS
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#H136
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#S274
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#H520
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601/#S512