republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-227.md

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Bill	Enforcement of pesticide violations.	Provides a list of violations for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty. Eliminates the schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board. (Under current law, the state chemist imposes a civil penalty in accordance with a schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board.) Provides that the state chemist may adjust a civil penalty by 20% for certain violations if a person responsible for the violation takes mitigating actions.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 227	Indiana SB 227 (2021)	bill	AGRICULTURE generally CIVIL ACTIONS Penalties ENVIRONMENT generally HORTICULTURE	enacted	Don Lehe Jean Leising Susan Glick Timothy Lanane	4	24	1	2021-01-07	2021-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/f79f766f-23ee-4ec8-9403-9981ac1369eb	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/227	38d228665502a2419c578e79125003c50f2778285fc61f5ad63219382cf545e7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 227 (2021) — Enforcement of pesticide violations.

Provides a list of violations for which the state chemist may impose a civil penalty. Eliminates the schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board. (Under current law, the state chemist imposes a civil penalty in accordance with a schedule of civil penalties as adopted by the Indiana pesticide review board.) Provides that the state chemist may adjust a civil penalty by 20% for certain violations if a person responsible for the violation takes mitigating actions.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 227 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — 91–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Don Lehe — primary (person)
• Jean Leising — primary (person)
• Susan Glick — primary (person)
• Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
• J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-07 Authored by Senator Leising
• 2021-01-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-12 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-01-14 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 13: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-25 Senator Glick added as second author
• 2021-01-25 House sponsor: Representative Lehe
• 2021-01-25 Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
• 2021-01-26 Senator Lanane added as third author
• 2021-01-26 Referred to the House
• 2021-02-23 First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-11 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-03-15 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 91, nays 4 passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-15 Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
• 2021-03-16 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-03-29 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-01 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 318: yeas 48, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-01 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2021-04-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-13 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-19 Public Law 76
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f79f766f-23ee-4ec8-9403-9981ac1369eb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).