---
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 37"
citation: "Indiana SB 37 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TOXICOLOGY", "STATE DEPARTMENT OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Joseph Zakas", "Susan Glick", "Timothy Lanane"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba991cb6-c30d-4495-acd6-25e50994fa04"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/37"
source_hash: "ddffc569a1bb540640549085ab1af52f143198a6544123da60a01e975fe4e8c1"
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 37 (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/sb0037/versions/sb0037.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0037/versions/sb0037.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0037/versions/sb0037.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0037/versions/sb0037.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 37 - Zakas - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 37 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Timothy Lanane — primary (person)
- David Ober — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Zakas
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-18** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2017-01-18** Senator Lanane added as third author
- **2017-01-18** Senators Koch, Taylor G, Randolph added as coauthors
- **2017-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 12: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative Ober
- **2017-01-25** 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 278: 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 38
- **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/ba991cb6-c30d-4495-acd6-25e50994fa04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).