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type: "Bill"
title: "Regulation of pesticide use and application."
description: "Makes various changes to the statutes governing pesticide registration and pesticide use and application. Requires the pesticide review board (board) to establish a working group to review civil penalties and for the working group to make recommendations (before December 1, 2020) concerning civil penalties to the board and the general assembly. Provides that the state chemist shall suspend the enforcement of its FY 2019 pesticide enforcement response policy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "Indiana SB 438 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HORTICULTURE", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Don Lehe", "Jean Leising", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2515ce9c-0839-41bd-9fc6-93de7ea8385b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/438"
source_hash: "775a01e540f128e068fa9e2bf63176e6a77b19068c27984be6f6358a4e666afc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana SB 438 (2020) — Regulation of pesticide use and application.
Makes various changes to the statutes governing pesticide registration and pesticide use and application. Requires the pesticide review board (board) to establish a working group to review civil penalties and for the working group to make recommendations (before December 1, 2020) concerning civil penalties to the board and the general assembly. Provides that the state chemist shall suspend the enforcement of its FY 2019 pesticide enforcement response policy.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0438/versions/SB0438.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 438 - Lehe - 3rd Reading — **8410** (pass) · lower
- SB 438 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **389** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Don Lehe — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-15** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2020-01-15** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2020-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 131: yeas 38, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-03** House sponsor: Representative Lehe
- **2020-02-03** Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2020-02-04** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 216: yeas 84, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-02** Motion to dissent filed
- **2020-03-02** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Lanane
- **2020-03-03** Senate advisors appointed: Glick and Taylor G
- **2020-03-04** House conferees appointed: Lehe and Wright
- **2020-03-04** House advisors appointed: Prescott, Baird, Steuerwald, Deal and Moed
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2020-03-10** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 365: yeas 48, nays 1
- **2020-03-11** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 371: yeas 92, nays 4
- **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
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 91
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2515ce9c-0839-41bd-9fc6-93de7ea8385b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).