---
type: "Bill"
title: "Panhandling."
description: "Provides that a person who panhandles within 50 feet of: (1) the entrance or exit to a bank, business, or restaurant; (2) the location where a financial transaction occurs; or (3) a public monument; commits the offense of panhandling, a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally panhandles regardless of the time of day commits panhandling, a Class C misdemeanor. (Current law limits the time period of the offense to after sunset and before sunrise.) Defines \"financial transaction\" and \"public monument\"."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1022"
citation: "Indiana HB 1022 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Bosma", "Liz Brown", "Mark Messmer"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b586a0c8-3c17-4dbd-a735-ddd63f50c903"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1022"
source_hash: "699b7cb3462f3017cba250b70115f28556cd061f971f52c8c54670e08dcd99a4"
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 HB 1022 (2020) — Panhandling.

Provides that a person who panhandles within 50 feet of: (1) the entrance or exit to a bank, business, or restaurant; (2) the location where a financial transaction occurs; or (3) a public monument; commits the offense of panhandling, a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally panhandles regardless of the time of day commits panhandling, a Class C misdemeanor. (Current law limits the time period of the offense to after sunset and before sunrise.) Defines "financial transaction" and "public monument".

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1022/versions/HB1022.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1022/versions/HB1022.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1022/versions/HB1022.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1022/versions/HB1022.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1022/versions/HB1022.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1022 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1022 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Bosma — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Representative Torr
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 31: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-21** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2020-01-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-01-23** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2020-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-18** Amendment #2 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** Senator Brown L added as second sponsor
- **2020-02-18** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-21** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-04** Motion to dissent filed
- **2020-03-04** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-04** Representative Torr removed as author
- **2020-03-04** Representative Bosma added as author
- **2020-03-04** Representative Porter removed as coauthor
- **2020-03-04** House conferees appointed: Bosma and Porter
- **2020-03-04** House advisors appointed: Huston, Torr and Dvorak
- **2020-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Messmer and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2020-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Brown L and Taylor G
- **2020-03-05** Representative Torr added as coauthor
- **2020-03-10** Representative Torr removed as advisor
- **2020-03-10** Representative Porter removed as conferee
- **2020-03-10** Representative Torr added as conferee
- **2020-03-10** Senator Brown L removed as advisor
- **2020-03-10** Senator Randolph Lonnie M removed as conferee
- **2020-03-10** Senator Brown L added as conferee
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2020-03-10** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 359: yeas 84, nays 10
- **2020-03-10** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 367: yeas 35, nays 14
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-21** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 151

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b586a0c8-3c17-4dbd-a735-ddd63f50c903`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).