---
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 404"
citation: "Indiana SB 404 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES", "Traffic Violations and Penalties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd60ab21-a737-413c-ad51-74a00c136b42"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/404"
source_hash: "5637362c253f3f131cedc84b8b14ca84464a5ee061d6f24278c3e814fde93acc"
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 404 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0404/versions/sb0404.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0404/versions/sb0404.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0404/versions/sb0404.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0404/versions/sb0404.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0404/versions/sb0404.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 404 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 404 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- John Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2018-02-05** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Young J
- **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: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Representative Jordan added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13** Public Law 63

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd60ab21-a737-413c-ad51-74a00c136b42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).