---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural resources."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural resources."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1211"
citation: "Indiana HB 1211 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WATER generally", "INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Stemler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10ff4ae1-3bc3-4161-b707-fac18c998549"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1211"
source_hash: "9b40e024a81e8d8e37fa256c4635304fc2f772c87050090231a680a645086af3"
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 1211 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning natural resources.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1211/versions/hb1211.04.engs)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1211/versions/hb1211.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1211/versions/hb1211.03.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1211/versions/hb1211.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1211/versions/hb1211.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1211 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1211 - Stemler - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Stemler — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- James Baird — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Head — cosponsor (person)
- Wes Culver — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Culver, Clere and Baird
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Stemler
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Statutory Committee on Interstate and International Cooperation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 101: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Grooms
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Amendment #1 (Charbonneau) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Head added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 459: yeas 90, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 142
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10ff4ae1-3bc3-4161-b707-fac18c998549`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).