SB0198: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Enrolled Senate Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: Crime of swatting.

Legislators

Actions (18 total)

• Apr 16, 2025, 8:00 PM: Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• Apr 16, 2025, 10:48 AM: Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 456: yeas 34, nays 0
• Apr 10, 2025, 2:02 PM: Motion to concur filed
• Mar 26, 2025, 4:53 AM: Returned to the Senate with amendments
• Mar 25, 2025, 10:01 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 309: yeas 95, nays 0
• Mar 24, 2025, 9:53 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Mar 24, 2025, 9:31 AM: Representative Lucas added as cosponsor
• Mar 20, 2025, 7:22 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Mar 3, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
• Feb 12, 2025, 11:14 AM: Referred to the House
• Feb 11, 2025, 11:05 AM: Senator Buck added as coauthor
• Feb 11, 2025, 9:30 AM: House sponsor: Representative Ireland
• Feb 11, 2025, 9:26 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 47, nays 1
• Feb 10, 2025, 10:33 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Feb 6, 2025, 1:27 PM: Senator Koch added as second author
• Feb 4, 2025, 9:13 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Jan 8, 2025, 10:20 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
• Jan 8, 2025, 10:20 AM: Authored by Senator Freeman

Digest

Specifies that, for purposes of the crime of false informing, hindering a "law enforcement process" includes causing a law enforcement officer to be dispatched. Enhances the penalty for making a false report that a person is dangerous to a Level 6 felony if the offense would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened.