---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eyewitness identification procedures."
description: "Establishes a procedure to be used by a law enforcement agency in conducting a lineup or in person witness identification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 141"
citation: "Indiana SB 141 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS; Witnesses", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Academy and Training", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43e346b-70e1-45a7-80ac-c7e2f8a76e0b"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0141"
source_hash: "db58ecf8850036ebfb814a3e6ecf84f788d5eafd3a8b54669657c7e0ffb52836"
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 141 (2025) — Eyewitness identification procedures.

Establishes a procedure to be used by a law enforcement agency in conducting a lineup or in person witness identification.

## 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/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 141 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 141 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 141 - Brown L — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Senator Glick added as second author
- **2025-01-28** Senator Pol added as coauthor
- **2025-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** Senators Koch and Clark added as coauthors
- **2025-02-13** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2025-02-19** Amendment #4 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-19** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2025-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2025-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Representative Gore added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 319: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-31** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-07** Concurrence withdrawn `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-08** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2025-04-08** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-10** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Gore
- **2025-04-10** Dissent rescinded
- **2025-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-10** House advisors appointed: McNamara, Meltzer and Pierce M
- **2025-04-16** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 452: yeas 35, nays 1
- **2025-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 127 `became-law`
- **2025-05-01** 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/c43e346b-70e1-45a7-80ac-c7e2f8a76e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).