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IN SB0375

Bill

Status

Passed

4/10/2019

Primary Sponsor

Rick Niemeyer

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Origin

Senate

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • After June 30, 2019, local government units are prohibited from enacting ordinances that require solid waste haulers to collect solid waste management fees on the government's behalf and remit those fees to the unit or to a solid waste management district board.

  • The prohibition also applies to operators of vehicles transporting recyclable materials for recycling, preventing local governments from requiring them to serve as fee collectors.

  • Amends Indiana Code definitions to add IC 13-21-14-3 (solid waste management district provisions) to the list of statutes where "unit" refers to the definition in IC 36-1-2-23.

  • Adds this fee collection restriction to the existing list of powers that local government units do not possess under Indiana's local government law (IC 36-1-3-8).

  • Effective date: July 1, 2019.

Legislative Description

Collecting solid waste management district fees. Amends the solid waste management district law and the local government law to provide that, after June 30, 2019, a unit of local government may not enact an ordinance requiring a solid waste hauler or a hauler of recyclable materials to collect solid waste management fees and remit the fees to the board of a solid waste management district or a unit of local government.

Last Action

Public Law 19

4/10/2019

Committee Referrals

Environmental Affairs1/8/2019

Full Bill Text

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