---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 380"
citation: "Indiana SB 380 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS; HISTORIC SITES AND PRESERVATION", "HIGHWAYS AND ROADS", "Local Streets and Roads", "CONSTRUCTION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Mark Messmer", "Steve Bartels"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/455f911a-ee7b-4132-9e6a-9957c97e97ee"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/380"
source_hash: "0b6cbde6e1885c399f40ceac33f2904e55fc4a474fedf89618e57d8ba1beb240"
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 380 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural and cultural resources.

## 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/sb0380/versions/sb0380.03.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0380/versions/sb0380.05.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0380/versions/sb0380.06.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0380/versions/sb0380.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0380/versions/sb0380.04.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0380/versions/sb0380.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 380 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **87–7** (pass) · legislature
- SB 380 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #1 (Messmer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 111: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Bartels
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #1 (Bartels) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 87, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-01** Representative Lindauer added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Representatives Klinker and Hamilton added as cosponsors
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-05** Representative Lawson added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate advisors appointed: Koch, Stoops and Spartz
- **2018-03-06** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2018-03-06** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Lindauer, Lehman, Kersey and Klinker
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Bartels and Hamilton
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-13** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 386: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 387: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 169
- **2018-03-21** 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/455f911a-ee7b-4132-9e6a-9957c97e97ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).