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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Victim's rights and investigations."
+description: "Establishes a procedure permitting an immediate family member of a deceased individual to request the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a new investigation into the death of the individual if: (1) a local law enforcement agency has determined that the death was not the result of a criminal act by a third party; (2) the individual was not under the care of a physician or the victim of medical malpractice; and (3) the family member has a reasonable suspicion that the death was the result of a criminal act by a third party."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 177"
+citation: "Indiana SB 177 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DEATH", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "State Police", "VICTIMS OF CRIME"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark Messmer", "Michael Young", "Steve Bartels"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-01-05"
+last_action: "2021-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0a57728-6c63-4257-9f2d-2d8b8cb31151"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/177"
+source_hash: "1ee2f6f1fcc5e8b462476deb83bf18e8fb4efc1d54f1cc91fefc506e80937933"
+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 177 (2021) — Victim's rights and investigations.
+
+Establishes a procedure permitting an immediate family member of a deceased individual to request the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a new investigation into the death of the individual if: (1) a local law enforcement agency has determined that the death was not the result of a criminal act by a third party; (2) the individual was not under the care of a physician or the victim of medical malpractice; and (3) the family member has a reasonable suspicion that the death was the result of a criminal act by a third party.
+
+## 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/2021/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0177/versions/SB0177.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 177 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-05** Authored by Senator Messmer
+- **2021-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-25** Senator Young M added as second author
+- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 47: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** House sponsor: Representative Bartels
+- **2021-02-02** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2021-02-03** Referred to the House
+- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 364: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-07** Motion to concur filed
+- **2021-04-08** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 375: yeas 47, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-04-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2021-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2021-04-19** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-19** Public Law 71
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0a57728-6c63-4257-9f2d-2d8b8cb31151`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+