---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal penalties."
description: "Provides that a person who uses a vehicle to commit the offense of resisting law enforcement or interfering with public safety, and has a prior conviction for either offense that involved the use of a vehicle, commits a Level 5 felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1097"
citation: "Indiana HB 1097 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "Accidents and Vehicle Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Abbott", "Eric Koch", "Jack Sandlin", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/154e71cb-a09b-44f5-8bc9-e70655ddad8e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1097"
source_hash: "0caf2bc47bb5f5b92aca4f6299d1bed9e9357a9c15331af73cbbc4d7b3ce62fb"
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 HB 1097 (2021) — Criminal penalties.

Provides that a person who uses a vehicle to commit the offense of resisting law enforcement or interfering with public safety, and has a prior conviction for either offense that involved the use of a vehicle, commits a Level 5 felony.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.03.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.05.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.06.ENRS)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.02.COMH)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.04.COMS)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1097/versions/HB1097.01.INTR)

## Sponsors

- David Abbott — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Abbott
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Representatives McNamara and Carbaugh added as coauthors
- **2021-02-17** Representative Morris added as coauthor
- **2021-02-18** Amendment #1 (Abbott) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Glick, Koch, Sandlin
- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 76, nays 17 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-24** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 413: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-14** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-14** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 445: yeas 53, nays 28 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-26** Public Law 124
- **2021-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-26** 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/154e71cb-a09b-44f5-8bc9-e70655ddad8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).