---
type: "Bill"
title: "Citizenship and immigration status."
description: "Provides that, if the attorney general determines probable cause exists, the attorney general, rather than any person lawfully domiciled in Indiana, shall bring an action to compel a governmental body or postsecondary educational institution to comply with statutes requiring cooperation with federal immigration officials. Requires a court to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard to enjoin the violation of those statutes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "Indiana SB 181 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; Citizenship and Immigration", "HIGHER EDUCATION; Colleges and Universities (Including Ivy Tech)", "STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Attorney General", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e30f8c9b-2051-47ce-8cc4-ac0d652abd08"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0181"
source_hash: "c89bd1a96b9098b37bfdd50fe679518027725620f8635d47b581b94414d97f82"
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 181 (2024) — Citizenship and immigration status.

Provides that, if the attorney general determines probable cause exists, the attorney general, rather than any person lawfully domiciled in Indiana, shall bring an action to compel a governmental body or postsecondary educational institution to comply with statutes requiring cooperation with federal immigration officials. Requires a court to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard to enjoin the violation of those statutes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0181/SB0181.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0181/SB0181.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0181/SB0181.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0181/SB0181.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 181 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — **70–23** (pass) · lower
- SB 181 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **37–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
- Chuck Goodrich — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senators Deery, Dernulc, Donato, Doriot added as coauthors
- **2024-01-18** Senator Crider added as second author
- **2024-01-18** Senators Zay and Busch added as coauthors
- **2024-01-18** Amendment #1 (Tomes) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Senators Holdman, Johnson T, Leising, Messmer added as coauthors
- **2024-01-22** Senators Alexander, Becker, Bohacek, Buchanan added as coauthors
- **2024-01-22** Senators Niemeyer, Raatz, Tomes, Walker G added as coauthors
- **2024-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 37, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
- **2024-01-22** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senators Freeman, Garten, Gaskill, Goode G added as coauthors
- **2024-01-22** Senators Buck, Byrne, Charbonneau, Crane added as coauthors
- **2024-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-01-29** Representative Goodrich added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-26** Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Representative Lauer added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 70, nays 23 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Public Law 76 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e30f8c9b-2051-47ce-8cc4-ac0d652abd08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).