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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Enforcement of pesticide violations."
+description: "Provides a list of violations for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty. Eliminates the schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board. (Under current law, the state chemist imposes a civil penalty in accordance with a schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board.) Provides that the state chemist may adjust a civil penalty by 20% for certain violations if a person responsible for the violation takes mitigating actions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 227"
+citation: "Indiana SB 227 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AGRICULTURE generally", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Penalties", "ENVIRONMENT generally", "HORTICULTURE"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Susan Glick", "Timothy Lanane"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-07"
+last_action: "2021-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f79f766f-23ee-4ec8-9403-9981ac1369eb"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/227"
+source_hash: "38d228665502a2419c578e79125003c50f2778285fc61f5ad63219382cf545e7"
+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 227 (2021) — Enforcement of pesticide violations.
+
+Provides a list of violations for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty. Eliminates the schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board. (Under current law, the state chemist imposes a civil penalty in accordance with a schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board.) Provides that the state chemist may adjust a civil penalty by 20% for certain violations if a person responsible for the violation takes mitigating actions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0227/versions/SB0227.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0227/versions/SB0227.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0227/versions/SB0227.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0227/versions/SB0227.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 227 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **91–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Don Lehe — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Susan Glick — primary (person)
+- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
+- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-07** Authored by Senator Leising
+- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-25** Senator Glick added as second author
+- **2021-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
+- **2021-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
+- **2021-01-26** Senator Lanane added as third author
+- **2021-01-26** Referred to the House
+- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 91, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-15** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
+- **2021-03-16** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-03-29** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 318: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-01** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-19** Public Law 76
+- **2021-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-19** 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/f79f766f-23ee-4ec8-9403-9981ac1369eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+