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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 421"
+citation: "Indiana SB 421 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT", "DEPARTMENT AND AGENCIES", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "WATER", "Pollution", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Wolkins", "Ed Charbonneau", "Eric Bassler"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56e15a71-b546-4526-bd06-01520051cef6"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/421"
+source_hash: "676cc40c75674c8ca639e4706abba9f500660f5635dfd279ed738ae69078e438"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 421 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0421/versions/sb0421.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 421 - Wolkins - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 421 - Bassler - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Wolkins — primary (person)
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
+- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Bassler
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
+- **2017-02-06** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-13** Amendment #1 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 122: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Wolkins
+- **2017-02-16** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 326: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 72
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56e15a71-b546-4526-bd06-01520051cef6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+