---
type: "Bill"
title: "Indiana crime guns task force."
description: "Provides that the Indiana crime guns task force area may include Allen County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1308"
citation: "Indiana HB 1308 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALLEN COUNTY", "WEAPONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Justin Busch", "Martin Carbaugh", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad1a8d4-79aa-43c6-a68d-dbf698b7fdaf"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1308"
source_hash: "013a3a7e08b0488895fa860ffa435861025a89c2a75c41ef69ee00da2f69f39b"
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 HB 1308 (2023) — Indiana crime guns task force.

Provides that the Indiana crime guns task force area may include Allen County.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1308/versions/HB1308.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1308/versions/HB1308.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1308/versions/HB1308.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1308/versions/HB1308.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1308 - Busch - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Justin Busch — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- Kyle Miller — coauthor (person)
- Kyle Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Authored by Representative Carbaugh
- **2023-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** Representatives Steuerwald, Frye, Miller K added as coauthors
- **2023-02-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Amendment #1 (Harris) motion withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
- **2023-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Busch
- **2023-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Senator Holdman added as second sponsor
- **2023-03-21** Senator Walker K added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 280: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-31** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 75 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/8ad1a8d4-79aa-43c6-a68d-dbf698b7fdaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).