---
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 362"
citation: "Indiana SB 362 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SOLID WASTE", "WATER", "Availability and Quality of Drinking Water", "UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Ober", "Douglas Eckerty", "Ed Charbonneau", "James Merritt"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2aad10c0-9f20-421d-bcca-2593179cdcb3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/362"
source_hash: "80c5ff1af17da42837879f558b24f89384b5ce6a1c125226ac38313796fc87a1"
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 362 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0362/versions/sb0362.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0362/versions/sb0362.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0362/versions/sb0362.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0362/versions/sb0362.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 362 - Ober - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 362 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- David Ober — primary (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Karen Tallian — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Charbonneau
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Eckerty added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Senator Merritt added as third author
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Tallian added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 88: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Ober
- **2018-01-29** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Senators Glick, Niezgodski, Stoops added as coauthors
- **2018-01-30** Senator Walker added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Representative Stemler added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 363: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 126
- **2018-03-16** 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/2aad10c0-9f20-421d-bcca-2593179cdcb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).