---
type: "Bill"
title: "Locating and recovering wild game."
description: "Permits a person to use an unmanned aerial vehicle with infrared abilities to locate and recover a legally taken wild animal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 189"
citation: "Indiana SB 189 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NATURAL RESOURCES; Fish and Wildlife", "TECHNOLOGY; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", "TRANSPORTATION; Aircraft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alan Morrison", "Chris Garten", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9af3e9bb-55b4-4c1f-a042-d38a80042218"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0189"
source_hash: "38c05790824fccd06901cd37dcc4895f3f7daed42a4418b2e8e00c04a0610b11"
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 189 (2024) — Locating and recovering wild game.

Permits a person to use an unmanned aerial vehicle with infrared abilities to locate and recover a legally taken wild animal.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0189/SB0189.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0189/SB0189.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0189/SB0189.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0189/SB0189.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 189 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **41–5** (pass) · upper
- SB 189 - Baldwin — **38–6** (pass) · upper
- SB 189 - Morrison - 3rd Reading — **94–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alan Morrison — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Authored by Senators Baldwin and Garten
- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-11** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2024-01-16** Senator Johnson T added as coauthor
- **2024-01-18** Senator Byrne added as coauthor
- **2024-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 35: yeas 41, nays 5 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Morrison
- **2024-01-26** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Representative Wesco added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 204: yeas 94, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 234: yeas 38, nays 6
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9af3e9bb-55b4-4c1f-a042-d38a80042218`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).