---
type: "Bill"
title: "Encroachment on an investigation."
description: "Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally approaches within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after the law enforcement officer has ordered the person to stop commits a Class C misdemeanor. Specifies that \"emergency incident area\" may include an area 25 feet in all directions from the perimeter of an emergency incident area. (Under current law, the area is 150 feet)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1186"
citation: "Indiana HB 1186 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa6da12-72c0-40f1-84c5-0e90de1a6e43"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1186"
source_hash: "d1f29df4426735893a9c2499bff477b04a956aeaccbd35443d63617a619d0d50"
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 1186 (2023) — Encroachment on an investigation.

Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally approaches within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after the law enforcement officer has ordered the person to stop commits a Class C misdemeanor. Specifies that "emergency incident area" may include an area 25 feet in all directions from the perimeter of an emergency incident area. (Under current law, the area is 150 feet).

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1186 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **75–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Messmer — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Karickhoff and Pressel
- **2023-01-10** Authored by Representative McNamara
- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Representative Bartels added as coauthor
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 124: yeas 75, nays 20 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman and Sandlin
- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Senator Messmer added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-13** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-20** Amendment #7 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Amendment #1 (Young M) failed; Roll Call 226: yeas 16, nays 33 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 240: yeas 32, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-22** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-03-28** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 322: yeas 68, nays 26
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 67 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/3fa6da12-72c0-40f1-84c5-0e90de1a6e43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).