---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex offenses."
description: "Increases the maximum penalty for child molesting from 40 to 50 years under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 301"
citation: "Indiana SB 301 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek", "Sharon Negele"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ac20ce7-068f-4aaa-8050-2ebd3c097a26"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/301"
source_hash: "1f30cd7b897548da79fb9e4da73d544d551cabab7eb5a707cdcc9ae2f6043670"
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 301 (2023) — Sex offenses.

Increases the maximum penalty for child molesting from 40 to 50 years under certain circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0301/versions/SB0301.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 301 - Negele - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Sharon Negele — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Negele
- **2023-01-31** Senator Crider added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Representative Olthoff added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-12** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 392: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 109 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** 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/0ac20ce7-068f-4aaa-8050-2ebd3c097a26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).