---
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 55"
citation: "Indiana SB 55 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "CIVIL ACTIONS generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Young", "Rodric Bray", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df0a6d2f-d045-48bf-ae01-bb97e22ffcad"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/55"
source_hash: "5fd139dd3fcfcab0b555c9e7c41b1bdb5753e90610862c268f9fc8af7f09e13c"
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 55 (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/sb0055/versions/sb0055.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0055/versions/sb0055.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0055/versions/sb0055.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0055/versions/sb0055.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 55 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **43–7** (pass) · legislature
- SB 55 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `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 Young, M. added as second author
- **2017-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 43, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-23** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **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** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 280: 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 43
- **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/df0a6d2f-d045-48bf-ae01-bb97e22ffcad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).