---
type: "Bill"
title: "Domestic violence."
description: "Provides that a person arrested for certain crimes committed against a family or household member may not be released on bail for 24 hours. Provides that a charge of invasion of privacy is elevated to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior unrelated criminal stalking conviction. Provides that certain crimes are considered a serious violent felony for the purposes of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 158"
citation: "Indiana SB 158 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ABUSE generally", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Garten", "Michael Crider", "Scott Baldwin", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c96cb5fa-cbb9-4873-b1b2-478b2f52a2e6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/158"
source_hash: "a7d2a9960d97b3f7d713040a059e78cf2664e8f5eb3e969d6d4f6cc13c7ea9f3"
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 158 (2023) — Domestic violence.

Provides that a person arrested for certain crimes committed against a family or household member may not be released on bail for 24 hours. Provides that a charge of invasion of privacy is elevated to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior unrelated criminal stalking conviction. Provides that certain crimes are considered a serious violent felony for the purposes of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0158/versions/SB0158.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0158/versions/SB0158.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0158/versions/SB0158.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0158/versions/SB0158.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0158/versions/SB0158.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 158 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chris Garten — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Crider
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Senator Garten added as second author
- **2023-01-11** Senator Baldwin added as third author
- **2023-01-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Senators Sandlin, Bohacek, Freeman, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
- **2023-01-26** Senator Becker added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-09** Amendment #10 (Young M) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** Amendment #11 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 101: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2023-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2023-02-13** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-27** Representative Rowray E added as cosponsor
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-16** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 279: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 317: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 28 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c96cb5fa-cbb9-4873-b1b2-478b2f52a2e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).