SB0324: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Senate Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: Criminal procedures.

Legislators

Actions (29 total)

• Apr 15, 2025, 4:11 PM: Representative Bascom added as advisor
• Apr 15, 2025, 7:26 AM: House advisors appointed: McNamara, Steuerwald, Zimmerman and Pierce M
• Apr 15, 2025, 7:25 AM: House conferees appointed: Jeter and Andrade
• Apr 14, 2025, 4:01 PM: Senate dissented from House amendments
• Apr 14, 2025, 2:45 PM: Motion to dissent filed
• Apr 14, 2025, 6:46 AM: Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G, Koch and Carrasco
• Apr 14, 2025, 6:45 AM: Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Pol
• Apr 10, 2025, 2:35 PM: Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
• Apr 10, 2025, 2:35 PM: Senator Alexander added as coauthor
• Apr 9, 2025, 5:48 AM: Returned to the Senate with amendments
• Apr 8, 2025, 12:13 PM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 400: yeas 91, nays 0
• Apr 7, 2025, 11:28 AM: Representatives McNamara, Bascom, Andrade added as cosponsors
• Apr 7, 2025, 10:53 AM: Representative Andrade removed as cosponsor
• Apr 7, 2025, 10:47 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Apr 3, 2025, 7:06 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Mar 20, 2025, 7:16 AM: Representative Andrade added as cosponsor
• Mar 3, 2025, 7:22 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
• Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 AM: Referred to the House
• Feb 18, 2025, 11:59 AM: House sponsor: Representative Jeter
• Feb 18, 2025, 11:57 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 153: yeas 46, nays 3
• Feb 17, 2025, 9:33 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 9:33 AM: Amendment #3 (Qaddoura) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 17, 2025, 9:30 AM: Amendment #2 (Baldwin) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 13, 2025, 9:08 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Jan 30, 2025, 11:02 AM: Senator Carrasco added as third author
• Jan 30, 2025, 11:02 AM: Senator Koch added as second author
• Jan 28, 2025, 9:16 AM: Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:34 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
• Jan 13, 2025, 11:34 AM: Authored by Senator Freeman

Digest

Increases the penalty levels of crimes related to fentanyl and resisting law enforcement under certain circumstances. Makes possessing an imitation firearm on school property a Class B misdemeanor. Requires certain persons charged with a crime of domestic violence to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail. Requires that a bail hearing for a violent arrestee and certain other arrestees be held in open court, and requires money bail for the release of a repeat violent arrestee. Specifies that a facility having custody of a person arrested for certain crimes may not release the person on bail for at least 24 hours. Permits virtual bail hearings. Makes it a sentencing aggravator that: (1) the person is in the United States unlawfully; or (2) a person distributed a controlled substance to at least three different individuals in a 180 day period. Makes it a sentencing mitigator that the person: (1) has been diagnosed with a substance use disorder; and (2) has sought treatment for the disorder. Makes conforming changes.