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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: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 178"
+citation: "Indiana SB 178 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of", "SOLID WASTE", "ENVIRONMENT generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Karen Tallian", "Scott Pelath"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-08"
+last_action: "2018-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcf9335d-0f09-41dd-8dd8-8b93fe1cb3fe"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/178"
+source_hash: "21c58a7ead1dec7bd68902768f2bbd525ea2ffccf08d811c2b2e166ff1e4d323"
+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 178 (2018) — 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/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 178 - Pelath - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 178 - Tallian - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
+- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
+- Scott Pelath — primary (person)
+- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
+- Charles Moseley — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
+- Harold Slager — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mara Candelaria Reardon — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
+- Sean Eberhart — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Tallian
+- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-23** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
+- **2018-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-30** Amendment #1 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-30** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
+- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Pelath
+- **2018-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Slager and Moseley
+- **2018-02-01** Senators Doriot and Melton added as coauthors
+- **2018-02-02** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-19** Representative Eberhart added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-28** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2018-02-28** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as cosponsor
+- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-13** Public Law 51
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcf9335d-0f09-41dd-8dd8-8b93fe1cb3fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+