---
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 99"
citation: "Indiana SB 99 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS generally", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "PROPERTY", "COURTS generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Bassler", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a7c0782e-f8cc-44f4-a942-5317ce9db31a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/99"
source_hash: "afe970bc58e3e312f16063e9f21fc9bdfbab401eacda3be3f156af05f6333902"
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 99 (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/sb0099/versions/sb0099.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0099/versions/sb0099.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0099/versions/sb0099.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0099/versions/sb0099.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 99 - Bray - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 99 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — 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 Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Bassler added as second author
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 98: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-30** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 212: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** 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 47

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a7c0782e-f8cc-44f4-a942-5317ce9db31a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).