---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conviction data."
description: "Defines \"prohibited person\" as a person prohibited from possessing a firearm or carrying a handgun. Provides that the office of judicial administration may establish a system to transmit certain data to assist in determining whether a person is a prohibited person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 136"
citation: "Indiana SB 136 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information", "WEAPONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Michael Young", "Steve Bartels"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fe78d61-9544-47ee-bab7-365780ae9108"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/136"
source_hash: "bad879cac63c02949088e3d907d822aa7b14d1cc5be4e231dc78013312083252"
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 136 (2023) — Conviction data.

Defines "prohibited person" as a person prohibited from possessing a firearm or carrying a handgun. Provides that the office of judicial administration may establish a system to transmit certain data to assist in determining whether a person is a prohibited person.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.06.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.05.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.02.COMS)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0136/versions/SB0136.03.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 136 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — **85–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Steve Bartels — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Sandlin
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2023-01-31** Senators Koch and Bohacek added as coauthors
- **2023-01-31** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2023-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23** Senators Crider and Raatz added as coauthors
- **2023-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-27** Amendment #1 (Sandlin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** Senator Young M added as third author
- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 184: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Bartels
- **2023-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Jeter C
- **2023-03-01** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Representative Gore M added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 278: yeas 85, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-21** Representative Miller D added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-22** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 23 `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/2fe78d61-9544-47ee-bab7-365780ae9108`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).