SB0159: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.
Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM (America/Indianapolis).
General Information
- Stage: Enrolled Senate Bill (S)
- Current Chamber: senate
- Origin Chamber: senate
- Description: Procedures for obtaining a warrant.
Legislators
Coauthors (4)
Sponsors (1)
Cosponsors (0)
Advisors (0)
Conferees (0)
Actions (19 total)
- Apr 16, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Apr 16, 2025, 10:47 AM: Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 455: yeas 38, nays 0
- Apr 10, 2025, 1:17 PM: Motion to concur filed
- Mar 21, 2025, 7:23 AM: Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Mar 20, 2025, 11:34 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 90, nays 0
- Mar 17, 2025, 9:46 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Mar 13, 2025, 7:38 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Mar 3, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
- Jan 24, 2025, 5:29 AM: Referred to the House
- Jan 23, 2025, 10:27 AM: Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- Jan 23, 2025, 9:48 AM: House sponsor: Representative Bascom
- Jan 23, 2025, 9:45 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 15: yeas 49, nays 0
- Jan 21, 2025, 9:54 AM: Senators Pol, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
- Jan 21, 2025, 9:06 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
- Jan 21, 2025, 9:06 AM: Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
- Jan 16, 2025, 5:59 AM: Senator Bohacek added as second author
- Jan 14, 2025, 8:36 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
- Jan 8, 2025, 10:22 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
- Jan 8, 2025, 10:22 AM: Authored by Senator Freeman
Digest
Specifies that a request for a warrant made orally by telephone, radio, or similar electronic means must be recorded and typed or transcribed. (Under current law, the judge is required to record the request, and the court reporter to type or transcribe it.) Permits certain warrant requests to be: (1) made electronically (where current law only allows this by radio or telephone); and (2) recorded electronically (where current law only permits the use of audio tape). Requires the prosecuting attorney and a law enforcement agency to maintain all requests for warrants, and to provide them to a defendant in discovery.