---
type: "Bill"
title: "Constitutional amendment ballot language."
description: "Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning bail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Indiana SB 3 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS; Bail and Bail Bondsmen", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Constitution"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-08"
last_action: "2026-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfcd69f6-685a-4266-b245-2e121ef8ab69"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0003"
source_hash: "76d4d213d2d0c7a047274f513cb23a28b4112a40100cdccd378ed2024e6075b5"
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 3 (2026) — Constitutional amendment ballot language.

Prescribes the ballot language for the proposed constitutional amendment concerning bail.

## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0003/SB0003.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 3 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — **63–22** (pass) · lower
- SB 3 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **36–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-08** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2026-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-15** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2026-01-15** Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 45: yeas 36, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
- **2026-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 245: yeas 63, nays 22 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-18** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-24** Public Law 4 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfcd69f6-685a-4266-b245-2e121ef8ab69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).