---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 120"
citation: "Indiana SB 120 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40142ef4-933a-467a-ba1f-2a1533a4e8b5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/120"
source_hash: "5be7513f1be143850b23bbefa62c6192e4ddf92c0398c0929619df1c7093ed06"
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 120 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.

## 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/2017/bills/sb0120/versions/sb0120.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0120/versions/sb0120.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0120/versions/sb0120.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0120/versions/sb0120.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 120 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 120 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-09** Senator Bray added as second author
- **2017-01-17** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 45: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 284: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 50
- **2017-04-13** 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/40142ef4-933a-467a-ba1f-2a1533a4e8b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).