THE 2022 INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The gavel has come down on the 2022 Indiana General Assembly. The brisk session was consequential from an environmental and energy perspective, as we note in our 2022 End of Session Report. 

HOW TO USE THIS PAGE

This page highlights the Indiana state lawmakers who lead on the environment and sustainability in this year’s General Assembly, as well as those lawmakers who were notably anti-environmental (including the co-sponsors of the anti-environmental bill HB 1100). To find your State Senator and Representative (and their contact information), click the link below. Then, search on this page to see if they showed environmental leadership or acted as a major opponent of the environment this session. We encourage you to contact your lawmakers to hold them accountable for their actions, good or bad, this Session. 

Note: Several lawmakers have a “*” by their name, indicating that they appear on both lists. While they took positive steps in advocating for the environment this Session, they also had some less than positive actions. 

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A NOTE ON REDISTRICTING 

After the 2020 Census, Indiana now has new legislative districts at the state, federal, and local levels. These new maps will take affect this year, so there is a chance your legislative districts (and legislators, as a result) may be changing. 

More on Redistricting in 2021

RECOGNIZING LAWMAKERS WHO STOOD OUT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Representative David Abbott (R-Rome City)*

  • Authored a bill that would have prohibited wake boarding or wake surfing between sunset and sunrise with some additional limits for smaller lakes (HB 1055)

Senator Ron Alting (R-Lafayette) 

  • Championed legislation that would have established a climate task force (SB 255)

Representative Michael Aylesworth (R-Hebron)

  • Authored a bill to test water in childcare facilities and preschools for lead (HB 1378)

Representative Maureen Bauer (D-South Bend)

  • Authored a bill to test water in childcare facilities and preschools for lead (HB 1378)

Representative Pat Boy (D-Michigan City)

  • Authored a bill that would have given property owners a tax break if they preserved the wetlands on their property (HB 1334)
  • Authored a bill on safe disposal of coal ash (HB 1335)

Representative Brad Barrett (R-Richmond)

  • Sponsored a bill that will require medical providers to offer lead testing for children 9 to 72 months who have not previously been tested (HB 1313)

Senator Liz Brown (R-Ft. Wayne)

  • Denied hearing a bill that would have increased industry influence over agency decision making (HB 1063)
  • Sponsored a bill that would have made rooftop solar more affordable (SB 248)

Representative Tony Cook (R-Cicero)

  • Authored a bill to extend the life of net metering (HB 1136)

Representative Ed Delaney (D-Indianapolis)

  • Led the successful resistance to anti-IndyGo amendment in House Ways and Means Committee

Representative Ryan Dvorak (D-South Bend)

  • Spoke on the House floor against HB 1100

Representative Sue Errington (D-Muncie)

  • Sponsored a bill that requires each investor-owned utility to establish community solar projects every two years (HB 1250)
  • Spoke on the House floor against HB 1100

Senator Aaron Freeman (R-Indianapolis)*

  • Sponsored and championed a pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1196)

Senator Sue Glick (R-Lagrange)

  • Opposed a bill that would give unwarranted liability waiver to a carbon storage project (HB 1249/SB 265); worked behind the scenes to keep this language from being added to a conference committee report
  • Authored a bill that would have prohibited wake boarding or wake surfing between sunset and sunrise with some additional limits for smaller lakes (SB 187)
  • Co-authored a bill that would have prohibited coal ash to contaminate groundwater resources (SB 412)

Representative Carey Hamilton (D-Indianapolis)

  • Sponsored a climate change task force bill (HB 1287)
  • Co-sponsored an EV charging system bill (HB 1221)

Representative Carolyn Jackson (D-Gary)

  • Authored a bill to test water in childcares and preschools for lead (HB 1378)

Senator Eric Koch (R-Bedford)*

  • Sponsored underground pumped storage hydropower legislation (SB 147)

Senator Dennis Kruse (R-Auburn)

  • Authored a bill to establish Indiana Passenger Rail Commission (SB 13)

Representative Alan Morrison (R-Terre Haute)*

  • Sponsored a bill that would have made rooftop solar more affordable (HB 1304)

Senator Chip Perfect (R-Lawrenceburg)

  • Blocked hearing a bill that would have enacted anti-environmental “no more stringent than” language (HB 1100); tempered by his acquiescence to HB 1100 language being added to HB 1211

Representative Matt Pierce (D-Bloomington)

  • Forcefully spoke up against an anti-environmental bill (HB 1100/HB 1211)
  • Forcefully spoke up against a costly nuclear power bill (SB 271)

Senator Rodney Pol (D- Chesterton)

  • Authored a bill to prevent coal ash contamination of groundwater (SB 412)

Senator Linda Rogers (R-Granger)

  • Sponsored and championed a pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1196)

Representative Ed Soliday (R-Valparaiso)*

  • Championed a bill that will expand electric vehicle infrastructure (HB 1221); this praise is, however, tempered by the recognition that Rep. Soliday consented to a change to HB 1221 that would prohibit the sale of EV charging services sourced from onsite, customer-owned renewable power

Representative Mike Speedy (R-Indianapolis)*

  • Championed a pro-rooftop solar bill (HB 1196)

Senator Greg Taylor (D-Indianapolis)

  • Testified against an anti-IndyGo amendment in House Ways & Means Committee

Senator Shelli Yoder (D-Bloomington)

  • Championed the cause of environmentally friendly/pollinator friendly solar energy (SB 411)
  • Sponsored a bill to extend the life of net metering (SB 314)
  • Sponsored a bill that requires each investor-owned utility to establish community solar projects every two years (SB 313)
  • Worked behind the scenes to kill HB 1100 in Senate Commerce & Technology Committee