---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juveniles."
description: "Provides that a statement made by a juvenile during custodial interrogation in response to a materially false statement from a law enforcement officer is inadmissible against the juvenile unless certain exceptions apply. Requires, unless certain circumstances exist, that a law enforcement officer who arrests or takes into custody a child on school property or at a school-sponsored activity must notify or request a school administrator to notify the child's: (1) parent or guardian; or (2) emergency contact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 415"
citation: "Indiana SB 415 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Courts and Proceedings", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Rodney Pol"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a7295ab-7cf5-4066-978a-c1e0d4500953"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/415"
source_hash: "f0a946ffc6b7f20186be30184e51698532e523653441a771029f4d9f0f1325f0"
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 415 (2023) — Juveniles.

Provides that a statement made by a juvenile during custodial interrogation in response to a materially false statement from a law enforcement officer is inadmissible against the juvenile unless certain exceptions apply. Requires, unless certain circumstances exist, that a law enforcement officer who arrests or takes into custody a child on school property or at a school-sponsored activity must notify or request a school administrator to notify the child's: (1) parent or guardian; or (2) emergency contact.

## 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/SB0415/versions/SB0415.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0415/versions/SB0415.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0415/versions/SB0415.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0415/versions/SB0415.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0415/versions/SB0415.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 415 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
- Chuck Moseley — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
- Pat Boy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Pol
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2023-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 202: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2023-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Gore M, Moseley, Boy
- **2023-02-28** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **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`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 358: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 357: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2023-04-13** 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** Public Law 112 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** 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/2a7295ab-7cf5-4066-978a-c1e0d4500953`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).