---
type: "Bill"
title: "Evidence preservation requirements."
description: "Establishes additional requirements for the disposition of property held as evidence that may contain biological evidence related to an offense, including matters involving postconviction DNA testing and analysis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 263"
citation: "Indiana SB 263 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EVIDENCE", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/028ad49a-96a3-4faa-99cb-6fb122aa647a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/263"
source_hash: "ea1922623f79ae6d724454d4e627d45933ad88d4d70b8b712402517723948f66"
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 263 (2022) — Evidence preservation requirements.

Establishes additional requirements for the disposition of property held as evidence that may contain biological evidence related to an offense, including matters involving postconviction DNA testing and analysis.

## 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/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.05.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0263/versions/SB0263.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 263 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Dvorak — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Senators Koch, Bohacek, Sandlin, Pol added as coauthors
- **2022-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Senator Koch removed as coauthor
- **2022-01-27** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2022-01-31** Amendment #2 (Doriot) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 164: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsor: Representative Schaibley
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10** Representative Dvorak added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-14** Amendment #1 (Schaibley) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 190: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-21** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-24** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 260: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-11** Public Law 89
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/028ad49a-96a3-4faa-99cb-6fb122aa647a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).