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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: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1359"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1359 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Controlled Substances", "DEATH", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Erin Houchin", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-11"
+last_action: "2018-03-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58a49d45-5060-41e9-8207-f375262868bd"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1359"
+source_hash: "11e142e0a44ae21e726a056071648369b37ca22ba253300ccfc26da2ff1dae50"
+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 HB 1359 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.06.enrs)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.02.comh)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.05.coms)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.03.comh)
+5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.04.coms)
+6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1359 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **85–12** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1359 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **41–9** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- James Merritt — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
+- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
+- Scott Pelath — coauthor (person)
+- Thomas Washburne — coauthor (person)
+- Travis Holdman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
+- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-16** Representatives Washburne, Mahan, Pelath added as coauthors
+- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-18** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 85, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-01-29** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Houchin and Freeman
+- **2018-01-30** Referred to the Senate
+- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 262: yeas 41, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Senator Merritt added as cosponsor
+- **2018-02-27** Senators Zakas and Holdman added as cosponsors
+- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
+- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-22** Public Law 198
+- **2018-03-22** 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/58a49d45-5060-41e9-8207-f375262868bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+