---
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 387"
citation: "Indiana SB 387 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Department of", "CORRECTION", "Institutions and Inmates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Mark Messmer", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dc269e3-99e0-4b29-b8ef-36e87b7726a6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/387"
source_hash: "16cba84c2ef028994cdd4c43fd4a2e646ebd7368cc9fada6cda609ef52651909"
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 387 (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/sb0387/versions/sb0387.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 387 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **36–14** (pass) · legislature
- SB 387 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **94–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Lloyd Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Tomes
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 36, nays 14 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
- **2017-02-14** Senator Messmer added as second author
- **2017-02-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** 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 292: yeas 94, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-23** Representative Arnold added as cosponsor
- **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 67
- **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/0dc269e3-99e0-4b29-b8ef-36e87b7726a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).