---
type: "Bill"
title: "Immunity for escort of a banned person."
description: "Specifies that under the tort claims act, a governmental entity or employee acting within the scope of employment is not liable for loss resulting from injury to a person or property of a person who is: (1) under supervision of a governmental entity; and (2) subject to a court order requiring the person to be escorted by a county police officer while the person is on or in a government building owned by a county building authority. Provides exceptions to this immunity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1252"
citation: "Indiana HB 1252 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS generally", "CIVIL ACTIONS", "Immunity and Exemption from Liability", "COUNTY GOVERNMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "County Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Departments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ryan Hatfield", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e39d46f1-15fc-4ec6-a54a-b7e613b33ba4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1252"
source_hash: "fe36c8bbe231d2ce0c0b941c05b8a4ece8e9d5205a45205dfe40bc9a9ade88be"
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 1252 (2023) — Immunity for escort of a banned person.

Specifies that under the tort claims act, a governmental entity or employee acting within the scope of employment is not liable for loss resulting from injury to a person or property of a person who is: (1) under supervision of a governmental entity; and (2) subject to a court order requiring the person to be escorted by a county police officer while the person is on or in a government building owned by a county building authority. Provides exceptions to this immunity.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1252/versions/HB1252.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1252/versions/HB1252.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1252/versions/HB1252.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1252/versions/HB1252.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1252 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ryan Hatfield — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Authored by Representative Hatfield
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Representative Torr added as coauthor
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Senate sponsor: Senator Becker
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 96, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 369: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 135 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e39d46f1-15fc-4ec6-a54a-b7e613b33ba4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).