IN SB0121 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2025 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-03-03 - First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
Pending: House Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2025 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-03-03 - First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
Pending: House Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows. 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.
Title
Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows.
Sponsors
| Sen. Spencer Deery [R] | Sen. Michael Crider [R] | Sen. Scott Baldwin [R] | Sen. James Tomes [R] |
| Sen. Brett Clark [R] | Rep. Lori Goss-Reaves [R] |
Roll Calls
2025-01-30 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 44 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-03 | House | First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources |
| 2025-01-31 | Senate | Referred to the House |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves |
| 2025-01-30 | Senate | Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 44, nays 4 |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | Amendment #1 (Deery) prevailed; voice vote |
| 2025-01-23 | Senate | Senator Clark B added as coauthor |
| 2025-01-16 | Senate | Senator Tomes added as coauthor |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources |
| 2025-01-08 | Senate | Authored by Senators Deery, Crider, Baldwin |
