INDIANA – Senate Bill 57, authored by State Senator Jean Leising of Oldenburg, has unanimously passed out of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources.

The bill would shift management of Indiana’s historic sites from the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Corporation back to the Department of Natural Resources, which oversaw them until 2011.

It also creates a new DNR division dedicated to historic sites.

Senator Jean Leising serves District 42, which includes Fayette County.