--- type: "Bill" title: "Planning and zoning affecting military bases." description: "Allows a unit to establish a military impact zoning district for an area adversely impacted by the effects of military operations. Establishes a state area of interest that is comprised of land within one or both of the following: (1) Within three miles of certain military installations. (2) Within a military impact zoning district. Makes planning, zoning, and development activity (activity) in a state area of interest subject to the military installation commander's determination regarding the activity's impact on military operations. Allows a representative of the military installation to serve as a nonvoting adviser to the unit's plan commission. Requires a lease or real estate sales disclosure form to disclose that the property is within a state area of interest. Provides that the responsibility for the disclosure required by the owner that the property is located near a military installation rests solely with the owner of the property and no liability for the owner's failure to make the required disclosure shall accrue to any third party." jurisdiction: "us/states/in" legislature: "Indiana General Assembly" session: "2023" identifier: "SB 332" citation: "Indiana SB 332 (2023)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MILITARY FORCES", "PROPERTY", "ZONING AND PLANNING"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Ethan Manning", "James Buck", "Mark Messmer", "Stacey Donato"] version_count: 5 action_count: 30 vote_count: 1 first_action: "2023-01-12" last_action: "2023-04-20" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed00ba0f-78c4-4877-b7a2-aa2627260a67" source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/332" source_hash: "beb34f4c70d28ebeedb6ec14470035523f6af0509e9aea5f0bbfdbe28ebd994c" 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 332 (2023) — Planning and zoning affecting military bases. Allows a unit to establish a military impact zoning district for an area adversely impacted by the effects of military operations. Establishes a state area of interest that is comprised of land within one or both of the following: (1) Within three miles of certain military installations. (2) Within a military impact zoning district. Makes planning, zoning, and development activity (activity) in a state area of interest subject to the military installation commander's determination regarding the activity's impact on military operations. Allows a representative of the military installation to serve as a nonvoting adviser to the unit's plan commission. Requires a lease or real estate sales disclosure form to disclose that the property is within a state area of interest. Provides that the responsibility for the disclosure required by the owner that the property is located near a military installation rests solely with the owner of the property and no liability for the owner's failure to make the required disclosure shall accrue to any third party. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0332/versions/SB0332.03.ENGS) 2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0332/versions/SB0332.05.ENRH) 3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0332/versions/SB0332.01.INTR) 4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0332/versions/SB0332.04.COMH) 5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0332/versions/SB0332.02.COMS) ## Votes - SB 332 - Manning - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Ethan Manning — primary (person) - James Buck — primary (person) - Mark Messmer — primary (person) - Stacey Donato — primary (person) - Chris Garten — coauthor (person) - Chris May — cosponsor (person) - Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person) - Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person) - Eric Koch — coauthor (person) - Greg Walker — coauthor (person) - James Tomes — coauthor (person) - Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person) - Michael Karickhoff — cosponsor (person) - Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person) - Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Messmer - **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2023-01-30** Senator Garten added as coauthor - **2023-01-30** Senator Yoder added as coauthor - **2023-01-31** Senator Buck added as second author - **2023-01-31** Senator Donato added as third author - **2023-01-31** Senators Dernulc and Tomes added as coauthors - **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor - **2023-02-02** Amendment #1 (Donato) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage` - **2023-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2023-02-02** Senator Walker G added as coauthor - **2023-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 69: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2023-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Manning - **2023-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives May, Lindauer, Karickhoff - **2023-02-06** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor - **2023-02-06** Senator Koch added as coauthor - **2023-02-07** Referred to the House `referral` - **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee` - **2023-03-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage` - **2023-03-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2` - **2023-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 295: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3` - **2023-03-24** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt` - **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing` - **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 323: yeas 48, nays 0 - **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage` - **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage` - **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage` - **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature` - **2023-04-20** Public Law 43 `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed00ba0f-78c4-4877-b7a2-aa2627260a67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).