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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sentence enhancement for use of firearm."
+description: "Adds an investigator for the inspector general to the definition of \"police officer\" for purposes of the statute providing a sentence enhancement for individuals who point or discharge a firearm at a police officer while committing certain crimes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 19"
+citation: "Indiana SB 19 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons", "INSPECTOR GENERAL"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Chris Jeter", "Mike Gaskill"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 20
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-04"
+last_action: "2022-03-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7974998-82e1-41c4-92be-957818171436"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/19"
+source_hash: "7193d90accc44e6f3e8f670a772f0b3b295ebb311448e9f20df63ef0d48b7d88"
+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 19 (2022) — Sentence enhancement for use of firearm.
+
+Adds an investigator for the inspector general to the definition of "police officer" for purposes of the statute providing a sentence enhancement for individuals who point or discharge a firearm at a police officer while committing certain crimes.
+
+## 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/2022/bills/SB0019/versions/SB0019.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0019/versions/SB0019.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0019/versions/SB0019.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0019/versions/SB0019.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 19 - Jeter C - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
+- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senator Gaskill
+- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-10** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-01-18** Senator Freeman added as second author
+- **2022-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 39, nays 8 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-01-24** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
+- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
+- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
+- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-23** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-07** Public Law 4
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7974998-82e1-41c4-92be-957818171436`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+