---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judicial officers."
description: "Provides that a person commits battery on a public safety official if the offense is committed against a retired judicial officer while the retired judicial officer is serving as a judge, and allows a retired judicial officer to carry a handgun in the same manner as a judicial officer while the retired judicial officer is serving as a judge. Adds current and former probation officers and community corrections officers to the list of persons whose residential addresses may not be disclosed on a public property database website operated by a unit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1383"
citation: "Indiana HB 1383 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["IDENTITY", "JUDICIAL CONFERENCE OF INDIANA", "JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSIONS", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Eric Koch", "Jack Sandlin", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e22907e-8949-4333-93fb-f9209f539cfb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1383"
source_hash: "9159ee2c8cc113c8c4b372607db2d629e7fac03c01664471b7b2c1f3b9b1c016"
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 1383 (2021) — Judicial officers.

Provides that a person commits battery on a public safety official if the offense is committed against a retired judicial officer while the retired judicial officer is serving as a judge, and allows a retired judicial officer to carry a handgun in the same manner as a judicial officer while the retired judicial officer is serving as a judge. Adds current and former probation officers and community corrections officers to the list of persons whose residential addresses may not be disclosed on a public property database website operated by a unit.

## 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/HB1383/versions/HB1383.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1383/versions/HB1383.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1383/versions/HB1383.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1383/versions/HB1383.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1383 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representative Torr
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative Cook
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `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`
- **2021-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 216: yeas 93, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Koch, Sandlin
- **2021-02-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 356: yeas 49, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 400: yeas 87, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-23** Public Law 115
- **2021-04-23** 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/5e22907e-8949-4333-93fb-f9209f539cfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).