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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Constitutional amendment ballot language."
+description: "Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning bail."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 3"
+citation: "Indiana SB 3 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COURTS; Bail and Bail Bondsmen", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Constitution"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2026-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-02-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfcd69f6-685a-4266-b245-2e121ef8ab69"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0003"
+source_hash: "76d4d213d2d0c7a047274f513cb23a28b4112a40100cdccd378ed2024e6075b5"
+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 3 (2026) — Constitutional amendment ballot language.
+
+Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning bail.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 3 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — **63–22** (pass) · lower
+- SB 3 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
+- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
+- Eric Koch — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senator Koch
+- **2026-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-15** Senator Freeman added as second author
+- **2026-01-15** Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 45: yeas 36, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
+- **2026-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 245: yeas 63, nays 22 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2026-02-24** Public Law 4 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfcd69f6-685a-4266-b245-2e121ef8ab69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+