---
type: "Bill"
title: "Interference with boundary marker."
description: "Creates a civil penalty for a person who knowingly or intentionally disturbs or removes a boundary marker, and permits a court to order a person who disturbs or removes a boundary marker to pay for the cost of reestablishing the boundary marker."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 36"
citation: "Indiana SB 36 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Generally", "ZONING AND PLANNING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Blake Doriot", "Joanna King"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89381430-05d5-4edf-8619-254a00b58b22"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0036"
source_hash: "6a467a47862973b9ce34a821d95cbad44f2fcc87f0c86ef75a80070e8baad287"
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 36 (2024) — Interference with boundary marker.

Creates a civil penalty for a person who knowingly or intentionally disturbs or removes a boundary marker, and permits a court to order a person who disturbs or removes a boundary marker to pay for the cost of reestablishing the boundary marker.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0036/SB0036.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0036/SB0036.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0036/SB0036.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0036/SB0036.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 36 - King - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 36 - Doriot - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — primary (person)
- Joanna King — primary (person)
- Doug Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Doriot
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** Senator Walker G added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2024-01-22** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative Miller D
- **2024-01-23** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** House sponsor: Representative King
- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 21: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 166: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 10 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89381430-05d5-4edf-8619-254a00b58b22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).