---
type: "Bill"
title: "Travel insurance."
description: "Adds and amends definitions regarding travel insurance. Permits the commissioner of the department of insurance to issue a limited lines travel insurance producer license to a travel retailer if certain conditions are met. Establishes requirements for offering and disseminating information regarding travel insurance policies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 277"
citation: "Indiana SB 277 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE generally", "INSURANCE", "Insurance Companies", "Agents", "and Brokers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Martin Carbaugh", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bea9474-2e7b-402d-8cce-c3115011d332"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/277"
source_hash: "1d22aaa9cef3869805af37d4cf3723e9e6acde555690a4889f237b8f3414bc36"
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 277 (2022) — Travel insurance.

Adds and amends definitions regarding travel insurance. Permits the commissioner of the department of insurance to issue a limited lines travel insurance producer license to a travel retailer if certain conditions are met. Establishes requirements for offering and disseminating information regarding travel insurance policies.

## 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/SB0277/versions/SB0277.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0277/versions/SB0277.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0277/versions/SB0277.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0277/versions/SB0277.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 277 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **93–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Walker — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Matt Lehman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Authored by Senator Zay
- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 76: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2022-01-25** Cosponsor: Representative Lehman
- **2022-01-25** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2022-01-25** Senator Walker K added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-01-25** Senator Sandlin added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Representative Ellington added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 177: yeas 93, nays 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2022-02-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Public Law 19
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bea9474-2e7b-402d-8cce-c3115011d332`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).