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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 121: Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows.

Passed one chamber 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

SB 121 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Restrictions on using nets or traps for minnows. Primary sponsor: Lori Goss-Reaves (Republican), Scott Baldwin (Republican), Michael Crider (Republican), Spencer Deery (Republican). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 3, 2025): First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

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.

Prohibits the use of specific devices to take minnows from a waterway unless certain conditions are met. Provides an exemption for bait dealers and individuals with a scientific purposes license. Requires, not later than July 1, 2030, that the department of natural resources submit a report to legislative council regarding Sugar Creek's environmental condition and the status of the fish and wildlife population at Sugar Creek.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lori Goss-ReavesPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Scott BaldwinPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate20
Michael CriderPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate28
Spencer DeeryPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate23
Brett ClarkCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate24
Jim TomesCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate49

“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. First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources
  2. Referred to the House
  3. House sponsor: Representative Goss-Reaves
  4. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 44, nays 4
  5. Amendment #1 (Deery) prevailed; voice vote
  6. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  7. Senator Clark added as coauthor
  8. Senator Tomes added as coauthor
  9. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  10. Authored by Senators Deery, Crider, Baldwin
  11. First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources

Sources

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