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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 178"
citation: "Indiana SB 178 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of", "SOLID WASTE", "ENVIRONMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Karen Tallian", "Scott Pelath"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcf9335d-0f09-41dd-8dd8-8b93fe1cb3fe"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/178"
source_hash: "21c58a7ead1dec7bd68902768f2bbd525ea2ffccf08d811c2b2e166ff1e4d323"
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 178 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning environmental law.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0178/versions/sb0178.04.comh)
## Votes
- SB 178 - Pelath - 3rd Reading — **950** (pass) · legislature
- SB 178 - Tallian - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Scott Pelath — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Charles Moseley — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Harold Slager — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Sean Eberhart — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Tallian
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-23** Senator Charbonneau added as second author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Amendment #1 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Pelath
- **2018-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Slager and Moseley
- **2018-02-01** Senators Doriot and Melton added as coauthors
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Representative Eberhart added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-02-28** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 276: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 51
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fcf9335d-0f09-41dd-8dd8-8b93fe1cb3fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).