---
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 499"
citation: "Indiana SB 499 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "INDIANAPOLIS", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions", "TIPPECANOE COUNTY", "WAYNE COUNTY", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Erin Houchin", "Jeff Raatz", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b5356f2-79df-4c12-b1ca-f0184d681357"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/499"
source_hash: "70bbf2c808c56ad5b30f588dde8cdc994d69fb7adb992e1efe1f5a2a7e617bf2"
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 499 (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/sb0499/versions/sb0499.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0499/versions/sb0499.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0499/versions/sb0499.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0499/versions/sb0499.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0499/versions/sb0499.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 499 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **43–7** (pass) · legislature
- SB 499 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Brandt Hershman — coauthor (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Zent — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-21** Senator Houchin added as third author
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Hershman added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 240: yeas 43, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Representatives Zent and Brown, C. added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-27** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Representative Kirchhofer added as sponsor
- **2017-03-27** Representative Kirchhofer removed as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-03-28** Representatives Klinker and Shackleford added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-30** Amendment #2 (Goodin) failed; Roll Call 344: yeas 30, nays 59 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 358: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 440: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **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 125
- **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/7b5356f2-79df-4c12-b1ca-f0184d681357`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).