---
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 4"
citation: "Indiana SB 4 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STUDY COMMITTEES", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Young", "Michael Young", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fe6beeb-b174-417d-baf4-55765a14627b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/4"
source_hash: "0161f162975d516125b36afaf76991c8ee2b2de03392b8f3d7fead72d7ec8971"
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 4 (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/sb0004/versions/sb0004.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0004/versions/sb0004.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0004/versions/sb0004.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0004/versions/sb0004.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 4 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **40–7** (pass) · legislature
- SB 4 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John Young — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Bray
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-11** Senator Young M added as second author
- **2018-01-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 12: yeas 40, nays 7 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-16** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-18** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Representative Young J added as sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 188: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 2

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fe6beeb-b174-417d-baf4-55765a14627b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).