---
type: "Bill"
title: "Flood plain management."
description: "Provides that in a county having a population within certain parameters, a local flood plain administrator may issue a variance allowing a structure located in a floodway to remain in its location without a permit issued by the director of the department of natural resources if the structure is an abode or residence, a permit for the construction of the abode or residence was issued by the appropriate official of the county before December 19, 2018, and other conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 342"
citation: "Indiana SB 342 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODWAYS", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barrett", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e785f3c0-40f2-4ccd-9b00-8f7c92d1de96"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/342"
source_hash: "f2c2780b76571cca3dbfcddc4cd6ab9f0054976e37f21fa8db2dfb262003d98d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 342 (2022) — Flood plain management.

Provides that in a county having a population within certain parameters, a local flood plain administrator may issue a variance allowing a structure located in a floodway to remain in its location without a permit issued by the director of the department of natural resources if the structure is an abode or residence, a permit for the construction of the abode or residence was issued by the appropriate official of the county before December 19, 2018, and other conditions are met.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 342 - Barrett - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brad Barrett — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2022-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 40, nays 8 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Barrett
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** Representatives King J and Jackson added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 211: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Public Law 133
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e785f3c0-40f2-4ccd-9b00-8f7c92d1de96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).