---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile justice."
description: "Provides for the automatic expungement of certain juvenile offenses. Prohibits a juvenile arrestee who meets certain requirements from being housed with adult inmates prior to trial, with certain exceptions. Establishes a procedure for determining juvenile competency. Provides that after a juvenile court has determined that a child is a dual status child, the juvenile court may refer the child to be assessed by a dual status assessment team under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 368"
citation: "Indiana SB 368 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Delinquents", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Institutions and Schools", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Karen Tallian", "Susan Glick", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c4377e5-66c0-498a-9364-86b48d2cfedf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/368"
source_hash: "b00275a6af35256982b536950b63db1b1058b24821c7354d8e53e83b0c9a721e"
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 368 (2021) — Juvenile justice.

Provides for the automatic expungement of certain juvenile offenses. Prohibits a juvenile arrestee who meets certain requirements from being housed with adult inmates prior to trial, with certain exceptions. Establishes a procedure for determining juvenile competency. Provides that after a juvenile court has determined that a child is a dual status child, the juvenile court may refer the child to be assessed by a dual status assessment team under certain circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.06.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.07.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.05.COMH)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0368/versions/SB0368.02.COMS)

## Sponsors

- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Ragen Hatcher — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-12** Authored by Senator Tallian
- **2021-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-15** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2021-02-22** Amendment #2 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Amendment #3 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2021-02-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Pierce, Steuerwald, Hatcher
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Referred to the Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2021-04-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06** Amendment #1 (McNamara) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 377: yeas 87, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-14** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 439: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 157
- **2021-04-29** 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/3c4377e5-66c0-498a-9364-86b48d2cfedf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).