---
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 74"
citation: "Indiana SB 74 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Controlled Substances"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b86121fc-f401-4dfb-872f-5abe043f6a32"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/74"
source_hash: "484a37b1d3a88f5f4366353c7f0accc434da5b5e85a1834d5990bee72b7d8128"
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 74 (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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0074/versions/sb0074.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0074/versions/sb0074.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0074/versions/sb0074.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0074/versions/sb0074.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0074/versions/sb0074.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 74 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **46–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 74 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Young M
- **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`
- **2018-01-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 14: yeas 46, nays 1 `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`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #2 (Ober) prevailed; Roll Call 262: yeas 51, nays 42 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Representative Hamm added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-02** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 337: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 89
- **2018-03-15** 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/b86121fc-f401-4dfb-872f-5abe043f6a32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).