---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 239"
citation: "Indiana SB 239 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Department of", "PAROLE AND PROBATION", "VICTIMS OF CRIME"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Randall Head", "Rodric Bray", "William Friend"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/670c2642-a5d2-4465-8374-c04e19cbf292"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/239"
source_hash: "b538173de0ac8e1fcbd17560409a6a7c303ac335fce2a1473ee78fef6cc29f27"
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 239 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

## 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/sb0239/versions/sb0239.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0239/versions/sb0239.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0239/versions/sb0239.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0239/versions/sb0239.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 239 - Head - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 239 - Friend - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- William Friend — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Friend
- **2017-01-30** Senator Bray added as second author
- **2017-01-30** Senators Freeman and Young M added as coauthors
- **2017-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Senator Zakas added as coauthor
- **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`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Representative Macer added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 305: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** 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 55
- **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/670c2642-a5d2-4465-8374-c04e19cbf292`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).