---
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: "HB 1292"
citation: "Indiana HB 1292 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOATS AND BOATING", "FISH AND WILDLIFE", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of", "WATER generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Mark Messmer", "Sean Eberhart", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51252e12-3bee-467e-ba4a-f71daf6c07c9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1292"
source_hash: "b88b594668c08efeb7e3126cc9ac8158ce021826ceda4f85c29d0b5ba56a6b05"
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 1292 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1292/versions/hb1292.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1292/versions/hb1292.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1292/versions/hb1292.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1292/versions/hb1292.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1292 - Glick - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1292 - Eberhart - 3rd Reading — **87–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Sean Eberhart — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Clyde Kersey — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Eberhart
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Representative Lindauer added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Representative Kersey added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #1 (Pierce) failed; Roll Call 141: yeas 35, nays 50 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 159: yeas 87, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsor: Senator Glick
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Senator Tomes added as second sponsor
- **2018-02-19** Senator Messmer added as third sponsor
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 237: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 39

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51252e12-3bee-467e-ba4a-f71daf6c07c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).