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Bill
Maintenance of regulated drains.
Provides that a permit is not required from the Indiana department of environmental management for the maintenance or reconstruction of a regulated drain in accordance with certain best management practices for purposes of the law concerning state regulated wetlands, as long as the work takes place within the current easement and the reconstruction does not substantially change the characteristics of the drain to perform the function for which it was designed and constructed.
us/states/in
Indiana General Assembly
2020
SB 229
Indiana SB 229 (2020)
DRAINS AND DRAINAGE
WETLANDS
enacted
Blake Doriot
David Wolkins
Linda Rogers
Victoria Spartz
5
39
2
2020-01-06
2020-03-25
openstates
ocd-bill/3acdfb4b-42c6-4200-8f16-0ad5de1f7ca5
http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/229
1781557618e327bff92045896343e69761859972f07d2d89dbacdc66ae0553b4
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
Indiana SB 229 (2020) — Maintenance of regulated drains.
Provides that a permit is not required from the Indiana department of environmental management for the maintenance or reconstruction of a regulated drain in accordance with certain best management practices for purposes of the law concerning state regulated wetlands, as long as the work takes place within the current easement and the reconstruction does not substantially change the characteristics of the drain to perform the function for which it was designed and constructed.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
SB 229 - Spartz - 3rd Reading — 32– 18 (pass) · upper
SB 229 - Wolkins - 3rd Reading — 58– 37 (pass) · lower
Blake Doriot — primary (person)
David Wolkins — primary (person)
Linda Rogers — primary (person)
Victoria Spartz — primary (person)
Robert Cherry — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Spartz
2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
2020-01-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
2020-01-14 Senator Doriot added as second author
2020-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
2020-01-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 31: yeas 32, nays 18 reading-3, passage
2020-01-21 House sponsor: Representative Wolkins
2020-01-21 Senator Rogers added as third author
2020-01-22 Referred to the House
2020-02-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government reading-1, referral-committee
2020-02-25 Reassigned to Committee on Environmental Affairs referral-committee
2020-02-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
2020-03-02 Amendment #2 (Wesco) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
2020-03-02 Representative Cherry added as cosponsor
2020-03-02 Amendment #5 (Errington) failed; Roll Call 245: yeas 33, nays 59 amendment-failure
2020-03-02 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 286: yeas 58, nays 37 reading-3, passage
2020-03-04 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
2020-03-04 Motion to dissent filed
2020-03-04 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
2020-03-04 House conferees appointed: Wolkins and Errington
2020-03-04 House advisors appointed: Prescott, Abbott, Steuerwald, Bauer and Deal
2020-03-05 Senate conferees appointed: Spartz and Stoops
2020-03-05 Senate advisors appointed: Doriot, Tallian and Rogers
2020-03-10 Senator Doriot removed as advisor
2020-03-10 Senator Stoops removed as conferee
2020-03-10 Senator Doriot added as conferee
2020-03-10 Representative Prescott removed as advisor
2020-03-10 Representative Errington removed as conferee
2020-03-10 Representative Prescott added as conferee
2020-03-11 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2020-03-11 CCR # 1 filed in the House
2020-03-11 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 377: yeas 55, nays 29
2020-03-11 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 383: yeas 32, nays 17
2020-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
2020-03-25 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
2020-03-25 Public Law 166
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/3acdfb4b-42c6-4200-8f16-0ad5de1f7ca5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).