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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Sex offenses."
+description: "Increases the maximum penalty for child molesting from 40 to 50 years under certain circumstances."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 301"
+citation: "Indiana SB 301 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek", "Sharon Negele"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-12"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ac20ce7-068f-4aaa-8050-2ebd3c097a26"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/301"
+source_hash: "1f30cd7b897548da79fb9e4da73d544d551cabab7eb5a707cdcc9ae2f6043670"
+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 301 (2023) — Sex offenses.
+
+Increases the maximum penalty for child molesting from 40 to 50 years under certain circumstances.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 301 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Brown L
+- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-26** Senator Bohacek added as second author
+- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Negele
+- **2023-01-31** Senator Crider added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-21** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
+- **2023-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-12** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 392: yeas 47, nays 0
+- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Public Law 109 `became-law`
+- **2023-05-01** 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/0ac20ce7-068f-4aaa-8050-2ebd3c097a26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+