---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1250"
citation: "Indiana HB 1250 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Sharon Negele"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59f2c987-cef7-46f8-bf91-754a06165885"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1250"
source_hash: "c018c0d37078249a4097a7e056c70f1c13613f6d1f161b50c3f7537540bf9917"
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 HB 1250 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1250/versions/hb1250.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1250 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **42–8** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1250 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **82–8** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Jack Jordan — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Negele
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Representative DeLaney added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 94: yeas 82, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Representative Jordan added as coauthor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 42, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 333: yeas 93, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 80
- **2018-03-14** 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/59f2c987-cef7-46f8-bf91-754a06165885`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).