---
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 300"
citation: "Indiana SB 300 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SOLID WASTE", "BOARDS AND BOARD MEMBERSHIP", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris May", "Eric Koch", "James Buck"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d31cdcb-bcf2-4e28-b52b-a8fc6c5f0717"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/300"
source_hash: "53fdd73a3572e315a30aa89696c71b3a4cf221ee7a526b7756171c92f8e5a3d6"
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 300 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0300/versions/sb0300.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0300/versions/sb0300.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0300/versions/sb0300.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0300/versions/sb0300.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 300 - May - 3rd Reading — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 300 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Chris May — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Buck added as second author
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 48: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** House sponsor: Representative May
- **2017-01-31** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-02-01** 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 337: yeas 88, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** 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 60
- **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/5d31cdcb-bcf2-4e28-b52b-a8fc6c5f0717`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).