---
type: "Bill"
title: "Battery charged security devices."
description: "Prohibits a county, city, or town from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that prohibits or imposes requirements on certain battery charged security devices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Indiana SB 127 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS; Generally", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "HOMELAND SECURITY; Generally", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Doug Miller", "Greg Taylor", "James Buck", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69214805-4fda-479e-a23c-a855dd5e2522"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0127"
source_hash: "ffc64c1206961bad7b10b947e277d798a8913e5014a445f5f1e9061a29cea82d"
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 127 (2025) — Battery charged security devices.

Prohibits a county, city, or town from adopting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that prohibits or imposes requirements on certain battery charged security devices.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0127/SB0127.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0127/SB0127.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0127/SB0127.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0127/SB0127.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 127 - Buck — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 127 - Miller D - 3rd Reading — **93–2** (pass) · lower
- SB 127 - Buck - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Doug Miller — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- James Buck — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Buck
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-22** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-01-21** House sponsor: Representative Miller D
- **2025-01-21** Senator Niemeyer added as second author
- **2025-01-21** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2025-01-21** Senator Taylor G added as third author
- **2025-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 9: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 93, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-27** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 305: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Public Law 39 `became-law`
- **2025-04-09** 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/69214805-4fda-479e-a23c-a855dd5e2522`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).