---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home detention."
description: "Allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program. Provides that a violation of certain terms of a community corrections program placement constitutes escape. Repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor. Repeals a provision that requires the court to suspend a period of an individual's sentence if placed in a community corrections program. Provides that if a person on home detention knowingly and intentionally: (1) leaves the person's home; (2) remains outside of the person's home; or (3) travels to an unauthorized location; in violation of the home detention order and without written permission commits escape, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the court may not suspend the minimum sentence for a Level 3 felony if the person has a juvenile adjudication for certain offenses committed within three years of the commission of the Level 3 felony. Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.) Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1287"
citation: "Indiana HB 1287 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings", "CORRECTION", "Community Programs", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sentencing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Jennifer Meltzer", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f463087-a52c-4fd4-b435-18bce56794d3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1287"
source_hash: "8ac5cfd7bd67f4187e438e1a24c56f4c33e7c339e65c2cae8d513774828eda4c"
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 1287 (2023) — Home detention.

Allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program. Provides that a violation of certain terms of a community corrections program placement constitutes escape. Repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor. Repeals a provision that requires the court to suspend a period of an individual's sentence if placed in a community corrections program. Provides that if a person on home detention knowingly and intentionally: (1) leaves the person's home; (2) remains outside of the person's home; or (3) travels to an unauthorized location; in violation of the home detention order and without written permission commits escape, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the court may not suspend the minimum sentence for a Level 3 felony if the person has a juvenile adjudication for certain offenses committed within three years of the commission of the Level 3 felony. Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.) Makes conforming changes.

## 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/HB1287/versions/HB1287.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1287/versions/HB1287.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1287/versions/HB1287.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1287/versions/HB1287.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1287/versions/HB1287.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1287 - Meltzer J - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jennifer Meltzer — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)
- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Authored by Representative Meltzer
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Representative Lindauer added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Representative Garcia Wilburn V added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Representative Jeter C added as coauthor
- **2023-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2023-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 90: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-08** 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`
- **2023-03-09** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-14** Senator Young M added as third sponsor
- **2023-03-20** Amendment #2 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 43, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Senator Pol added as cosponsor
- **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 324: yeas 94, nays 0
- **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 72 `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/1f463087-a52c-4fd4-b435-18bce56794d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).