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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exoneration payments."
+description: "Provides that a person applying to the Indiana criminal justice institute seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration must prove that he or she is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence. Specifies that payments may be suspended while a defendant is incarcerated for a different offense."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 1283"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1283 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMINAL JUSTICE"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young", "Ryan Mishler"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-10"
+last_action: "2022-03-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dd59564-8e87-4605-ac38-417dc1cd0a76"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1283"
+source_hash: "ba75d8b460502a050df7734a0132f428a3cc63e39c3bbe93cbb3727c2a22af88"
+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 1283 (2022) — Exoneration payments.
+
+Provides that a person applying to the Indiana criminal justice institute seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration must prove that he or she is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence. Specifies that payments may be suspended while a defendant is incarcerated for a different offense.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.04.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.05.ENRS)
+3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.02.COMH)
+4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.03.COMS)
+5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.01.INTR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1283 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **89–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
+- Michael Young — primary (person)
+- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
+- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
+- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
+- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Thompson, Smaltz, Porter
+- **2022-01-10** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
+- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Mishler, Freeman
+- **2022-01-25** Cosponsor: Senator Taylor G
+- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 83: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
+- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-14** Amendment #1 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
+- **2022-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-16** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-02-17** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2022-02-17** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-02-18** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Porter
+- **2022-02-18** House advisors appointed: Thompson, Smaltz, Hatcher and Shackleford
+- **2022-02-22** Senate conferees appointed: Young M and Taylor G
+- **2022-02-22** Senate advisors appointed: Mishler and Pol
+- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2022-03-08** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 352: yeas 36, nays 14
+- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 366: yeas 94, nays 1
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-15** Public Law 146
+- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-03-15** 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/4dd59564-8e87-4605-ac38-417dc1cd0a76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+