---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to repeal a provision of the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to repeal a provision of the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Indiana SB 13 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WEAPONS", "LOANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Smaltz", "James Tomes", "Rick Niemeyer", "Ron Alting"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/157a8387-b28b-4d39-b24e-158ce0b3deea"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/13"
source_hash: "c1de866cbbfc7ce464a3b6fd8ade74fcd3c71edb95109a0f6e090a778f95aef5"
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 13 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to repeal a provision of 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/sb0013/versions/sb0013.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0013/versions/sb0013.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 13 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — **88–7** (pass) · legislature
- SB 13 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **49–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Ron Alting — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- John Young — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Delph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Terry Goodin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Tomes
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Senator Alting added as second author
- **2017-01-17** Senator Niemeyer added as third author
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senators Delph, Young M, Freeman, Koch, Taylor G added as coauthors
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 107: yeas 49, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Smaltz
- **2017-02-14** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `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** Representative Goodin added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Representatives Young J and Hatfield added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 88, nays 7 `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 37
- **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/157a8387-b28b-4d39-b24e-158ce0b3deea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).