republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-280.md

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Bill	Deer hunting.	Provides that, for a hunting season beginning after June 30, 2025, rifles may be used to hunt deer on public property subject to certain restrictions. Removes certain rifle case length limitations and provides that a hunter may use a rifle chambered for a centerfire rifle cartridge that fires a bullet that is at least five and fifty-six hundredths (5.56) of a millimeter in diameter or larger to hunt deer. Prohibits the department of natural resources from adopting rules regarding centerfire rifle case length limitations.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 280	Indiana SB 280 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Natural Resources (DNR) FIREARMS AND WEAPONS NATURAL RESOURCES; Fish and Wildlife PROPERTY; Generally	enacted	Chris Garten Scott Baldwin Shane Lindauer Tyler Johnson	6	29	3	2025-01-13	2025-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/58414b23-b6f1-4049-a1ea-0c5f85d26b6d	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0280	7a9bd2f3b6c22b14b2efd39ada1145e3c95719e9984ddb728c2d361b01565191	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 280 (2025) — Deer hunting.

Provides that, for a hunting season beginning after June 30, 2025, rifles may be used to hunt deer on public property subject to certain restrictions. Removes certain rifle case length limitations and provides that a hunter may use a rifle chambered for a centerfire rifle cartridge that fires a bullet that is at least five and fifty-six hundredths (5.56) of a millimeter in diameter or larger to hunt deer. Prohibits the department of natural resources from adopting rules regarding centerfire rifle case length limitations.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 280 - Baldwin - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 280 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 280 - Baldwin — 46–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Garten — primary (person)
• Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
• Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• Matt Commons — cosponsor (person)
• Robb Greene — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senator Baldwin
• 2025-01-16 Senator Garten added as second author
• 2025-01-27 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-03 Senator Johnson T added as third author
• 2025-02-03 Senator Raatz added as coauthor
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #1 (Baldwin) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Lindauer
• 2025-02-05 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 71: yeas 50, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-13 Representative Commons added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-17 Representative Greene added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-17 Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Placed back on second reading
• 2025-03-25 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Amendment #1 (Lindauer) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-03-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 320: yeas 92, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-02 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-01 Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 331: yeas 46, nays 1
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-16 Public Law 76 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58414b23-b6f1-4049-a1ea-0c5f85d26b6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).