---
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: "SB 12"
citation: "Indiana SB 12 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes", "VICTIMS OF CRIME"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Bohacek", "Sharon Negele"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82886b8b-9c8c-4445-a6b8-88651ad62549"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/12"
source_hash: "2285da1de11f84108bf684746ee5796b0f8fb2bad0f3f4b9fa22fd60b3c495f9"
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 12 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0012/versions/sb0012.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0012/versions/sb0012.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0012/versions/sb0012.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0012/versions/sb0012.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0012/versions/sb0012.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 12 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 12 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Bohacek
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-03** Senator Houchin added as second author
- **2018-01-22** Senators Eckerty and Crane added as coauthors
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 153: yeas 46, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Negele
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Pressel
- **2018-02-06** Senators Alting and Crider added as coauthors
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 222: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** Senator Houchin removed as second author
- **2018-03-12** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 370: yeas 26, nays 20 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-16** Public Law 87
- **2018-03-16** 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/82886b8b-9c8c-4445-a6b8-88651ad62549`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).