---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public safety."
description: "Makes wearing a mask during the commission of a criminal offense a sentencing aggravator. Makes it malicious littering, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to place refuse on the property of another person with the intent to cause the owner or occupant of the property to reasonably fear for their physical safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "Indiana SB 160 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Sentencing", "HEALTH; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brett Clark", "Danny Lopez", "Scott Baldwin", "Spencer Deery"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-05"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/178ee71b-8a88-40c5-9c07-258badfd5d0c"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/sb0160"
source_hash: "d39c56078074559e4b92cdf4d6674b5a3a83c720014728c594661ff6b78da959"
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 160 (2026) — Public safety.

Makes wearing a mask during the commission of a criminal offense a sentencing aggravator. Makes it malicious littering, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person to place refuse on the property of another person with the intent to cause the owner or occupant of the property to reasonably fear for their physical safety.

## 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/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0160/SB0160.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0160/SB0160.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0160/SB0160.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/senate/bills/SB0160/SB0160.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 160 - Lopez - 3rd Reading — **88–2** (pass) · lower
- SB 160 - Deery - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 160 - Lopez - 2nd Reading — **33–59** (fail) · lower
- SB 160 - Deery — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brett Clark — primary (person)
- Danny Lopez — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Spencer Deery — primary (person)
- Tim Yocum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-05** Authored by Senator Deery
- **2026-01-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-14** Senator Clark added as second author
- **2026-01-20** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 51: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Lopez
- **2026-01-22** Senator Baldwin added as third author
- **2026-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2026-01-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-16** Amendment #1 (Pierce M) failed; Roll Call 242: yeas 33, nays 59 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2026-02-17** Representative Yocum added as cosponsor
- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 265: yeas 88, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-18** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-20** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-25** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 276: yeas 46, nays 0
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Public Law 112 `became-law`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-03-05** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/178ee71b-8a88-40c5-9c07-258badfd5d0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).