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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Tribal law enforcement."
+description: "Authorizes police officers appointed by a tribe to exercise police powers in Indiana if the tribal police officer meets the standards of the Indiana law enforcement academy. Provides that a tribe may authorize a tribal police officer to exercise police powers in the entire state, or in any part of the state, if certain conditions are met. Requires a tribe seeking to employ an individual as a tribal police officer who will exercise police powers in Indiana to request the individual's employment history, if the individual was previously employed by a law enforcement agency. Makes conforming amendments."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 347"
+citation: "Indiana SB 347 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "NATIVE AMERICANS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Jake Teshka", "Ryan Mishler"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-03-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ffbb7b2-f4d9-4eea-a702-9eb629668a1b"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/347"
+source_hash: "4c5cb91e3e44ed6cd845fd8de9ef1e711077860c24e3cc925126005a9d5b2339"
+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 347 (2022) — Tribal law enforcement.
+
+Authorizes police officers appointed by a tribe to exercise police powers in Indiana if the tribal police officer meets the standards of the Indiana law enforcement academy. Provides that a tribe may authorize a tribal police officer to exercise police powers in the entire state, or in any part of the state, if certain conditions are met. Requires a tribe seeking to employ an individual as a tribal police officer who will exercise police powers in Indiana to request the individual's employment history, if the individual was previously employed by a law enforcement agency. Makes conforming amendments.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.03.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.05.ENRH)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.01.INTR)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.04.COMH)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 347 - Teshka J - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
+- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
+- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
+- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senators Mishler and Niezgodski
+- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-01-31** Amendment #1 (Mishler) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
+- **2022-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-01** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
+- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
+- **2022-02-01** Cosponsor: Representative Teshka J
+- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
+- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Teshka J added as sponsor
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Teshka J removed as cosponsor
+- **2022-02-15** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
+- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 212: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-21** Representatives Bauer M and DeLaney added as cosponsors
+- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-03-01** Motion to concur filed
+- **2022-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 41, nays 5 `amendment-failure`
+- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2022-03-10** Public Law 64
+- **2022-03-10** 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/4ffbb7b2-f4d9-4eea-a702-9eb629668a1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+