*SB0040.2*
February 12, 2025
SENATE BILL No. 40
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DIGEST OF SB 40 (Updated February 11, 2025 8:41 am - DI 140)
Citations Affected: IC 14-13.
Synopsis: Little Calumet River basin development commission.
Requires the Little Calumet River basin development commission
(commission) to submit an annual budget to the Lake County council
(council) before September 1 of each year for a nonbinding review.
Requires the commission to submit an annual expenditure and activity
report to the council before November 1 of each year.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Dernulc, Niemeyer,
Randolph Lonnie M
January 8, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.
January 23, 2025, amended, reported favorably — Do Pass; reassigned to Committee on
Tax and Fiscal Policy.
February 11, 2025, reported favorably — Do Pass.
SB 40—LS 6225/DI 153 February 12, 2025
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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SENATE BILL No. 40
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
natural and cultural resources.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 14-13-2-19 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
2 FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 19. (a) The Little
3 Calumet River project development fund is created. The commission
4 shall make expenditures from the fund only to accomplish the purposes
5 of this chapter and in accordance with section 33 of this chapter.
6 (b) The commission shall do the following:
7 (1) Hold the fund in the name of the commission.
8 (2) Administer the fund.
9 (3) Make all expenditures from the fund.
10 (c) The money in the fund at the end of a fiscal year remains in the
11 fund and does not revert to any other fund.
12 SECTION 2. IC 14-13-2-31, AS AMENDED BY P.L.106-2012,
13 SECTION 18, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
14 JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 31. (a) Subject to subsection (c), before November
15 1 of each year, the commission shall make a report of the commission's
16 activities to the following:
17 (1) The governor.
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1 (2) The legislative council.
2 (3) The board of county commissioners of Lake County.
3 (b) A report made to the legislative council under this section must
4 be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.
5 (c) The governor may require the commission to issue reports more
6 frequently than would otherwise be required under subsection (a).
7 (d) Before November 1 of each year, the commission shall make
8 a report of the commission's expenditures and activities to the
9 county council of Lake County.
10 SECTION 3. IC 14-13-2-33 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
11 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
12 1, 2025]: Sec. 33. Before September 1 of each year, the commission
13 shall submit a budget to the county council of Lake County for
14 nonbinding review.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Local Government, to
which was referred Senate Bill No. 40, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with
the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:
Page 2, line 12, delete "(a)".
Page 2, line 14, delete "approval." and insert "nonbinding review.".
Page 2, delete lines 15 through 19.
and when so amended that said bill do pass and be reassigned to the
Senate Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy.
(Reference is to SB 40 as introduced.)
BUCK, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy, to
which was referred Senate Bill No. 40, has had the same under
consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with
the recommendation that said bill DO PASS.
(Reference is to SB 40 as printed January 24, 2025.)
HOLDMAN, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0
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