---
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 344"
citation: "Indiana SB 344 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WEAPONS", "ALIENS", "Illegal", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Jim Lucas", "John Crane", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/344"
source_hash: "495a7c7ebc34f91af66bfef02762b8a8564c4e6b0b6c08ef0327d0f2cefa48d1"
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 344 (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/sb0344/versions/sb0344.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0344/versions/sb0344.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 344 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **44–4** (pass) · legislature
- SB 344 - Lucas - 3rd Reading — **91–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jim Lucas — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Young R Michael
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Crane added as third author
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 44, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Lucas
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 340: yeas 91, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** 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 63
- **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/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).