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Bill Ground water emergencies. Allows the owner or operator of a significant ground water withdrawal facility to file a complaint with the director of the department of natural resources (director) that a water well on the property of the owner of the significant ground water withdrawal facility failed to furnish the well's normal supply of water or failed to furnish potable water. Requires the director to launch an investigation into a complaint of a well failure from a significant ground water withdrawal facility within three business days of the director receiving the complaint. Provides that the owner of a significant ground water withdrawal facility responsible for the failure or substantial impairment of a well shall provide timely and reasonable compensation to the owner of an impacted significant ground water withdrawal facility or nonsignificant ground water withdrawal facility. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2025 SB 28 Indiana SB 28 (2025)
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AGENCIES; Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
AGRICULTURE; Crops
AGRICULTURE; Livestock
CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Liabilities
Damages
and Penalties
NATURAL RESOURCES; Rivers
Streams
and Waterways
UTILITIES; Water
enacted
Eric Koch
Shane Lindauer
Susan Glick
4 30 3 2025-01-08 2025-04-16 openstates ocd-bill/b0e262ed-d389-43ec-84f2-5d01a2d9f067 https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0028 45aee9eee9f0023f83bbc7e3a3d92d8f2f2ce9cf799de6f8d5ae34158b04fc78 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana SB 28 (2025) — Ground water emergencies.

Allows the owner or operator of a significant ground water withdrawal facility to file a complaint with the director of the department of natural resources (director) that a water well on the property of the owner of the significant ground water withdrawal facility failed to furnish the well's normal supply of water or failed to furnish potable water. Requires the director to launch an investigation into a complaint of a well failure from a significant ground water withdrawal facility within three business days of the director receiving the complaint. Provides that the owner of a significant ground water withdrawal facility responsible for the failure or substantial impairment of a well shall provide timely and reasonable compensation to the owner of an impacted significant ground water withdrawal facility or nonsignificant ground water withdrawal facility.

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 28 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — 930 (pass) · lower
  • SB 28 - Glick — 461 (pass) · upper
  • SB 28 - Glick - 3rd Reading — 460 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Eric Koch — primary (person)
  • Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
  • Susan Glick — primary (person)
  • Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
  • Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
  • David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
  • Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
  • Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
  • Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
  • Mark Genda — cosponsor (person)
  • Matt Commons — cosponsor (person)
  • Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
  • Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Glick
  • 2025-01-13 Senator Koch added as second author
  • 2025-01-16 Senator Byrne added as coauthor
  • 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2025-02-06 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
  • 2025-02-06 Senators Leising, Doriot, Donato added as coauthors
  • 2025-02-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-02-11 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-13 Senator Deery added as coauthor
  • 2025-02-14 Referred to the House referral
  • 2025-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 123: yeas 46, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-02-13 House sponsor: Representative Lindauer
  • 2025-02-13 Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
  • 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-03-13 Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  • 2025-03-17 Representatives Commons and Genda added as cosponsors
  • 2025-03-17 Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
  • 2025-03-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-03-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-04-02 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
  • 2025-04-02 Motion to concur filed filing
  • 2025-04-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 341: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-04-03 Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 339: yeas 46, nays 1
  • 2025-04-09 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2025-04-08 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2025-04-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2025-04-16 Public Law 71 became-law
  • 2025-04-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b0e262ed-d389-43ec-84f2-5d01a2d9f067. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).