---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taking bobcats."
description: "Requires the department of natural resources to establish and implement a season to take bobcats not later than July 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 241"
citation: "Indiana SB 241 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Natural Resources (DNR)", "NATURAL RESOURCES; Fish and Wildlife"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Michael Crider", "Scott Baldwin", "Shane Lindauer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e212988e-d176-4d60-bb60-8f5855716561"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0241"
source_hash: "c3adc8460d3b652781ecf32c7d5dafed0723377f4d7ee26dfca0696f935a3dba"
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 241 (2024) — Taking bobcats.

Requires the department of natural resources to establish and implement a season to take bobcats not later than July 1, 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0241/SB0241.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0241/SB0241.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0241/SB0241.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0241/SB0241.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 241 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — **40–9** (pass) · upper
- SB 241 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — **65–26** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
- Beau Baird — cosponsor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Authored by Senator Baldwin
- **2024-01-16** Senator Garten added as third author
- **2024-01-16** Senator Johnson T added as coauthor
- **2024-01-16** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2024-01-16** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Senator Byrne added as coauthor
- **2024-01-25** Amendment #2 (Taylor G) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-25** Amendment #1 (Taylor G) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** Cosponsors: Representatives Baird, Prescott, Bartels
- **2024-01-29** House sponsor: Representative Lindauer
- **2024-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 40, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** 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: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Amendment #1 (Porter) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 65, nays 26 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-04** 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 32 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e212988e-d176-4d60-bb60-8f5855716561`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).