---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibited technology purchases."
description: "Defines \"prohibited person\" as a person that has been designated as posing a national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or the communications supply chain under a Federal Communications Commission rule. Prohibits money appropriated by the general assembly or a political subdivision from being granted to or used to purchase or obtain any equipment or services produced or provided by a prohibited person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 197"
citation: "Indiana SB 197 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC CONTRACTS", "HOMELAND SECURITY", "TECHNOLOGY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blake Doriot", "Chris Garten", "Edmond Soliday", "Eric Koch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0e72aee-2965-4e59-b607-215a9413b209"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/197"
source_hash: "b1d6c096a85827072dddee3afaec5d5b68039b8bffa96a95aeff845e165882b3"
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 197 (2020) — Prohibited technology purchases.

Defines "prohibited person" as a person that has been designated as posing a national security threat to the integrity of communications networks or the communications supply chain under a Federal Communications Commission rule. Prohibits money appropriated by the general assembly or a political subdivision from being granted to or used to purchase or obtain any equipment or services produced or provided by a prohibited person.

## 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/2020/bills/SB0197/versions/SB0197.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0197/versions/SB0197.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0197/versions/SB0197.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0197/versions/SB0197.03.COMH)

## Votes

- SB 197 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 197 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Senator Garten added as second author
- **2020-01-21** Senator Doriot added as third author
- **2020-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 59: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Soliday
- **2020-01-27** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2020-01-28** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Representatives Pressel, Lauer, Moseley added as cosponsors
- **2020-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 208: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-26** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2020-03-02** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-03** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-11** Public Law 8

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0e72aee-2965-4e59-b607-215a9413b209`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).