Indiana Senate Bill 271 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: Passed on March 27 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-27 - Signed by the Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate committee for the 2014 legislative interim the responsibility: (1) to receive testimony about a number of subjects related to water resources, including certain recommendations of the utility regulatory commission, the effect of water resource availability on state and regional economic development decisions, coordination of state government activities relating to water resources, and key elements that a state water plan should contain; and (2) to study the potential creation of a water institute and a water management authority.

Water related study committee responsibilities.

Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]	Sen. Susan Glick [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Jean Breaux [D]
Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Steven Stemler [D]	Rep. David Wolkins [R]

2014-02-27 - House - House Floor - (Y: 92 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2014-02-24 - House - House Committee on Natural Resources - Roll Call 027102 (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2014-02-03 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: Passed: (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-01-24 - Senate - Senate Committee on Environmental Affairs - Roll Call 027101 (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-27	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2014-03-27	Senate	Public Law 197
2014-03-10	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2014-03-10	Senate	Signed by the Speaker
2014-02-27	House	Returned to the Senate without amendments
2014-02-27	House	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 339: yeas 92 and nays 0
2014-02-26	House	Second reading: engrossed.
2014-02-24	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted.
2014-02-10	House	First Reading: Referred to Natural Resources
2014-02-03	Senate	Representative Wolkins added as cosponsor.
2014-02-03	Senate	Representative Stemler added as cosponsor.
2014-02-03	Senate	Representative Koch added sponsor.
2014-02-03	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-02-03	Senate	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 110: yeas 48 and nays 0
2014-02-03	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor.
2014-01-30	Senate	Second reading: engrossed
2014-01-28	Senate	Senator Merritt added as coauthor.
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Breaux added as coauthor.
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Leising added as third author.
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Glick added as second author.
2014-01-27	Senate	Committee report: do pass amend, adopted.
2014-01-13	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Environmental Affairs
2014-01-13	Senate	Authored by Senator Charbonneau.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/271/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/e/d/e/cedec618/SB0271.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/0/0/9a00fc9b/SB0271.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/b/7/dab77e61/SB0271.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/a/4/0/2a40b8b2/SB0271.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/7/4/8/f7488c11/SB0271.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/3/e/2/b3e2ef73/SB0271.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/9/3/a/d93a4ef6/SB0271.04.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/a/8/f/da8fbfcc/SB0271.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/9/0/8/390826b7/SB0271.02.COMS.110.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/1/6/6/01662831/SB0271.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/2/4/5/1245c11f/SB0271.03.COMH.339.pdf