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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Throwing stars."
+description: "Makes throwing stars legal in Indiana except for on school property."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 77"
+citation: "Indiana SB 77 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons", "WEAPONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Linda Rogers", "Liz Brown"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-09"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da6c19ee-136a-4fe0-ba63-7e7767bde672"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/77"
+source_hash: "fc0e03d5b3449cbda9e1db163913883702fea368e2e3b2906761e4821249be0a"
+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 77 (2023) — Throwing stars.
+
+Makes throwing stars legal in Indiana except for on school property.
+
+## 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/SB0077/versions/SB0077.03.ENGS)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.05.ENRH)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.01.INTR)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.04.COMH)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 77 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **90–6** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
+- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
+- Liz Brown — primary (person)
+- Craig Haggard — cosponsor (person)
+- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senators Brown L and Rogers
+- **2023-01-09** 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`
+- **2023-01-30** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2023-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative DeVon
+- **2023-01-31** Cosponsors: Representatives Bartels and King J
+- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-20** Representative Haggard C added as cosponsor
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 90, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 313: yeas 46, nays 2
+- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 22 `became-law`
+- **2023-04-20** 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/da6c19ee-136a-4fe0-ba63-7e7767bde672`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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