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IN SB0303
Bill
Status
1/7/2015
Primary Sponsor
Rick Niemeyer
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AI Summary
I appreciate you providing the bill number and title, but the document you've shared is Senate Enrolled Act No. 101 from the 2015 Indiana General Assembly, which is about religious freedom restoration, not about water discharges.
Here's a summary of the actual bill in the document:
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Creates Chapter 9 of Indiana Code establishing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act effective July 1, 2015.
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Prohibits governmental entities from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.
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Allows substantial burdens only if the governmental entity demonstrates the burden furthers a compelling governmental interest and uses the least restrictive means.
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Permits individuals and certain organizations (including for-profit entities controlled by individuals with sincere religious beliefs) to assert violations as claims or defenses in judicial or administrative proceedings.
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Provides relief remedies including declaratory relief, injunctions, compensatory damages, and attorney's fees for successful claims against governmental entities.
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Explicitly excludes private employers from liability, preventing applicants, employees, or former employees from bringing claims under this chapter against private employers.
Legislative Description
Large scale discharges into state waters. Makes it a Class C infraction for a person to discharge more than 20 million gallons of water per day into any waters of the state without the approval of the director of the department of natural resources.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
1/7/2015