Two bills regarding Indiana’s wetlands are working their way through the state legislature.

Because of a state law passed three years ago and the result of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, few wetlands in Indiana are protected today.

One of those bills, HB 1383, authored by Rep. Alan Morrison (R-Brazil), would reduce protections even further.

It would lower the number of wetlands that could fall into Class 3 – Indiana’s most protected group of wetlands, and the only class that didn’t lose significant protections when the state changed its wetlands law in 2021.