---
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 38"
citation: "Indiana SB 38 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Department of", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "PAROLE AND PROBATION", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "John Young", "Joseph Zakas", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee5c953e-dcd9-4559-ac52-82c2082a999b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/38"
source_hash: "4ffcf8fe50df03fdf4ff447d263b477db5aa310d2315384aaeb832587f7ca44c"
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 38 (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/sb0038/versions/sb0038.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0038/versions/sb0038.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0038/versions/sb0038.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0038/versions/sb0038.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0038/versions/sb0038.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 38 - Zakas - 3rd Reading — **31–19** (pass) · legislature
- SB 38 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **96–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Joseph Zakas — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- James Merritt — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Michael Delph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — 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 Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-04** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Freeman added as third author
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senators Bohacek, Taylor G, Koch, Tomes added as coauthors
- **2017-02-13** Senators Houchin and Merritt added as coauthors
- **2017-02-13** Senator Delph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 110: yeas 31, nays 19 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-02-15** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-04** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2017-04-04** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Representative Young J added as sponsor
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 406: yeas 96, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 445: yeas 39, nays 7 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2017-04-11** Senators Crider, Crane, Kruse added as coauthors
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 95
- **2017-04-21** 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/ee5c953e-dcd9-4559-ac52-82c2082a999b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).