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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 344"
+citation: "Indiana SB 344 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["WEAPONS", "ALIENS", "Illegal", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Jim Lucas", "John Crane", "Michael Young"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/344"
+source_hash: "495a7c7ebc34f91af66bfef02762b8a8564c4e6b0b6c08ef0327d0f2cefa48d1"
+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 344 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 344 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **44–4** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 344 - Lucas - 3rd Reading — **91–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+- Jim Lucas — primary (person)
+- John Crane — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Young R Michael
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Koch added as second author
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Crane added as third author
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 44, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Lucas
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 340: yeas 91, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 63
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+