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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exemption from permitting requirements."
+description: "Provides that a forestry operation that conducts its operations in compliance with the Indiana Logging and Forestry Best Management Practices Field Guide published by the Indiana department of natural resources is exempt"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1601"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1601 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT", "DEPARTMENT AND AGENCIES", "FORESTS AND FORESTRY", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of", "WATERSHED"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Chris Garten", "Jean Leising", "Susan Glick"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4df1d41-8f3a-4bda-bef1-e62b2710289b"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1601"
+source_hash: "90031fec213b3cde49d0d0d90ffe8da46ae16cb333706cfa058dff849d7460c7"
+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 HB 1601 (2023) — Exemption from permitting requirements.
+
+Provides that a forestry operation that conducts its operations in compliance with the Indiana Logging and Forestry Best Management Practices Field Guide published by the Indiana department of natural resources is exempt
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1601/versions/HB1601.04.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1601/versions/HB1601.05.ENRS)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1601/versions/HB1601.02.COMH)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1601/versions/HB1601.03.COMS)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1601/versions/HB1601.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1601 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **91–2** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beau Baird — primary (person)
+- Chris Garten — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Susan Glick — primary (person)
+- J.D. Prescott — coauthor (person)
+- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Baird
+- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** Representative Lindauer added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-13** Representative Prescott added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Glick, Leising, Garten
+- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 91, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-20** Placed back on second reading
+- **2023-03-27** Amendment #4 (Glick) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-03-27** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 274: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-19** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-19** House dissented from Senate amendments
+- **2023-04-20** House conferees appointed: Baird and Boy
+- **2023-04-20** House advisors appointed: Lindauer, Abbott, Prescott and Jackson
+- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Glick and Breaux
+- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Leising and Qaddoura
+- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
+- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
+- **2023-04-26** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 520: yeas 87, nays 7
+- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 512: yeas 49, nays 0
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-04** Public Law 247 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4df1d41-8f3a-4bda-bef1-e62b2710289b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+