---
type: "Bill"
title: "Interfering with public safety."
description: "Provides that a person who enters a marked off area after having been denied entry by a firefighter commits interfering with public safety. (Under current law, the offense is committed only if the person is denied entry by an emergency medical services provider or a law enforcement officer.) Increases the penalty for obstruction of traffic under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1115"
citation: "Indiana HB 1115 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INDIANA CODE", "INSURANCE generally", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Miller", "Linda Rogers", "Michael Young", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d68cc466-4702-451c-b995-921d7319f823"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1115"
source_hash: "20e609f776459603696e97779ba367de5ca076a5979120d131f0a7b56c07e36c"
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 1115 (2021) — Interfering with public safety.

Provides that a person who enters a marked off area after having been denied entry by a firefighter commits interfering with public safety. (Under current law, the offense is committed only if the person is denied entry by an emergency medical services provider or a law enforcement officer.) Increases the penalty for obstruction of traffic under certain circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1115/versions/HB1115.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1115/versions/HB1115.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1115/versions/HB1115.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1115/versions/HB1115.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1115 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Mike Andrade — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Coauthored by Representative Frye R
- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Miller D
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-17** Representative Bartels added as coauthor
- **2021-02-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** Representative Andrade M added as coauthor
- **2021-02-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Rogers
- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 229: yeas 93, nays 0 `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`
- **2021-04-06** Senator Young M added as second sponsor
- **2021-04-06** Senator Baldwin added as third sponsor
- **2021-04-08** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 414: yeas 45, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-14** Motion to dissent filed
- **2021-04-14** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-15** House conferees appointed: Miller D and Andrade
- **2021-04-15** House advisors appointed: Lauer, King, Gore and Pack
- **2021-04-15** Senate conferees appointed: Rogers and Taylor G
- **2021-04-15** Senate advisors appointed: Baldwin and Tallian
- **2021-04-21** Representative Miller D removed as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative Steuerwald added as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative Andrade removed as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative Pierce added as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative Andrade added as advisor
- **2021-04-22** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2021-04-22** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2021-04-22** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 508: yeas 97, nays 0
- **2021-04-22** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 494: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-29** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 174

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d68cc466-4702-451c-b995-921d7319f823`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).