republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-241.md

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Bill	Taking bobcats.	Requires the department of natural resources to establish and implement a season to take bobcats not later than July 1, 2025.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 241	Indiana SB 241 (2024)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Natural Resources (DNR) NATURAL RESOURCES; Fish and Wildlife	enacted	Chris Garten Michael Crider Scott Baldwin Shane Lindauer	4	26	2	2024-01-10	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/e212988e-d176-4d60-bb60-8f5855716561	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0241	c3adc8460d3b652781ecf32c7d5dafed0723377f4d7ee26dfca0696f935a3dba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/e212988e-d176-4d60-bb60-8f5855716561. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).