---
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).