---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tribal law enforcement."
description: "Authorizes police officers appointed by a tribe to exercise police powers in Indiana if the tribal police officer meets the standards of the Indiana law enforcement academy. Provides that a tribe may authorize a tribal police officer to exercise police powers in the entire state, or in any part of the state, if certain conditions are met. Requires a tribe seeking to employ an individual as a tribal police officer who will exercise police powers in Indiana to request the individual's employment history, if the individual was previously employed by a law enforcement agency. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 347"
citation: "Indiana SB 347 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT generally", "NATIVE AMERICANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Niezgodski", "Jake Teshka", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ffbb7b2-f4d9-4eea-a702-9eb629668a1b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/347"
source_hash: "4c5cb91e3e44ed6cd845fd8de9ef1e711077860c24e3cc925126005a9d5b2339"
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 347 (2022) — Tribal law enforcement.

Authorizes police officers appointed by a tribe to exercise police powers in Indiana if the tribal police officer meets the standards of the Indiana law enforcement academy. Provides that a tribe may authorize a tribal police officer to exercise police powers in the entire state, or in any part of the state, if certain conditions are met. Requires a tribe seeking to employ an individual as a tribal police officer who will exercise police powers in Indiana to request the individual's employment history, if the individual was previously employed by a law enforcement agency. Makes conforming amendments.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0347/versions/SB0347.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 347 - Teshka J - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senators Mishler and Niezgodski
- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Amendment #1 (Mishler) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsor: Representative Teshka J
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-15** Representative Steuerwald removed as sponsor
- **2022-02-15** Representative Teshka J added as sponsor
- **2022-02-15** Representative Teshka J removed as cosponsor
- **2022-02-15** Representative Steuerwald added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 212: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Representatives Bauer M and DeLaney added as cosponsors
- **2022-02-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-01** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 41, nays 5 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 64
- **2022-03-10** 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/4ffbb7b2-f4d9-4eea-a702-9eb629668a1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).