---
type: "Bill"
title: "Natural resources matters."
description: "Extends the time for an individual to check a trap that captures and kills a furbearing animal from 24 hours to 48 hours. Requires the department of natural resources to publish a recommendation that the best practice to tend or visit, or have tended or visited a furbearing trap that is the person's property within a period not to exceed 24 hours. Establishes a one day license for fur buyers. Provides that in a county having a population with 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: (1) the structure is an abode or residence; (2) a permit for the construction of the abode or residence was issued by the appropriate official of the county before December 19, 2018; and (3) other conditions are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1183"
citation: "Indiana HB 1183 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (other than Livestock)", "FISH AND WILDLIFE", "FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODWAYS", "LICENSES AND LICENSING", "NATURAL RESOURCES", "State Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Prescott", "Jean Leising", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e22e6b88-4ea4-4df2-889a-4cdc0ac3da95"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1183"
source_hash: "0aadc26fcb201290e20833e19cdbf30cafae29f4f6eb8b9af4504bef4265ea21"
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 HB 1183 (2022) — Natural resources matters.

Extends the time for an individual to check a trap that captures and kills a furbearing animal from 24 hours to 48 hours. Requires the department of natural resources to publish a recommendation that the best practice to tend or visit, or have tended or visited a furbearing trap that is the person's property within a period not to exceed 24 hours. Establishes a one day license for fur buyers. Provides that in a county having a population with 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: (1) the structure is an abode or residence; (2) a permit for the construction of the abode or residence was issued by the appropriate official of the county before December 19, 2018; and (3) other conditions are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1183/versions/HB1183.03.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1183/versions/HB1183.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1183/versions/HB1183.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1183/versions/HB1183.04.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1183/versions/HB1183.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1183 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **31–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J.D. Prescott — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Coauthored by Representatives Young J, Pressel, Lindauer
- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Prescott
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Amendment #1 (Prescott) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Senate sponsors: Senators Leising and Raatz
- **2022-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 121: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Natural Resources `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 31, nays 13 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 87, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-15** Public Law 144

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e22e6b88-4ea4-4df2-889a-4cdc0ac3da95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).