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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1616: Department of natural resources.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1616 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Department of natural resources. Primary sponsor: Sue Glick (Republican), Shane Lindauer (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (April 30, 2025): Public Law 125.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Establishes a procedure to be followed when there are unpaid taxes assessed on a mineral interest. Adds a $10,000 cap on a tax credit for a taxpayer who completes preservation or rehabilitation of a historic property. Establishes that the department of natural resources can not certify credits into future years, but may maintain credits previously certified (credits granted before March 10, 2025 for expenditures incurred before July 1, 2024). Provides conditions and guidelines under which the department of natural resources may establish submerged lands preserves. Asks the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the topic of studying the economic value of public land for recreation in Indiana.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Sue GlickPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate13
Shane LindauerPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse63
Lonnie RandolphCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate2

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Public Law 125
  2. Signed by the Governor
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  5. Signed by the Speaker
  6. House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 490: yeas 90, nays 0
  7. Returned to the House with amendments
  8. Motion to concur filed
  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 447: yeas 47, nays 0
  10. Amendment #2 (Yoder) prevailed; voice vote
  11. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  12. Committee report: do pass, adopted

Showing 12 most recent of 23 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source