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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Various criminal law matters."
+description: "Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to exercise unauthorized control over the property of a retail merchant with the intent to directly or indirectly distribute the property for resale, and increases the penalty to a Level 5 felony if certain circumstances exist. Permits a person to petition for expungement of an arrest if no charges have been filed within one year of the arrest. (Under current law, the arrest is expunged without a petition after 180 days.) Requires a court, in granting a petition for expungement, to include in the order statutory language specifying that the person's civil rights are restored. Allows disclosure of expunged records to a school in connection with the employment of a person likely to have contact with a student. Specifies that an expunged record may not be destroyed or deleted. Repeals the requirement that certain acts taken by a prosecuting attorney are invalid without a seal. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 343"
+citation: "Indiana SB 343 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Property", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons", "PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Jerry Torr"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-05-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77459c5d-f2a6-404f-9f5e-a796a1e1a629"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/343"
+source_hash: "ec99eac804375b9b2c254471945f96e8a2bd5917c90f2f253116468ca83cce3a"
+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 343 (2023) — Various criminal law matters.
+
+Makes it organized retail theft, a Level 6 felony, for a person to exercise unauthorized control over the property of a retail merchant with the intent to directly or indirectly distribute the property for resale, and increases the penalty to a Level 5 felony if certain circumstances exist. Permits a person to petition for expungement of an arrest if no charges have been filed within one year of the arrest. (Under current law, the arrest is expunged without a petition after 180 days.) Requires a court, in granting a petition for expungement, to include in the order statutory language specifying that the person's civil rights are restored. Allows disclosure of expunged records to a school in connection with the employment of a person likely to have contact with a student. Specifies that an expunged record may not be destroyed or deleted. Repeals the requirement that certain acts taken by a prosecuting attorney are invalid without a seal. Makes conforming amendments and a technical correction.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0343/versions/SB0343.03.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0343/versions/SB0343.05.ENRH)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0343/versions/SB0343.01.INTR)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0343/versions/SB0343.04.COMH)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0343/versions/SB0343.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 343 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **85–12** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
+- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
+- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Freeman
+- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-27** Senator Sandlin added as second author
+- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 39, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Torr
+- **2023-03-01** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-04-06** Amendment #1 (Errington) failed; Roll Call 365: yeas 33, nays 56 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2023-04-06** Amendment #2 (Pierce) failed; Division of the House: yeas 27, nays 61 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2023-04-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-04-10** Representative Gore M added as cosponsor
+- **2023-04-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 377: yeas 85, nays 12 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-04-11** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-19** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-19** Senate dissented from House amendments
+- **2023-04-20** House conferees appointed: Torr and Gore
+- **2023-04-20** House advisors appointed: Steuerwald, Negele, McNamara and Pierce M
+- **2023-04-20** Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Pol
+- **2023-04-20** Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Sandlin
+- **2023-04-25** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
+- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
+- **2023-04-26** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 491: yeas 40, nays 9
+- **2023-04-26** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 516: yeas 83, nays 12
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-05-04** Public Law 185 `became-law`
+- **2023-05-04** 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/77459c5d-f2a6-404f-9f5e-a796a1e1a629`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+