---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child sex offenses."
description: "Provides that a criminal prosecution of a sex offense committed against a child that is otherwise barred by the statute of limitations may nevertheless be commenced within five years from the date on which: (1) the state discovers DNA evidence; (2) the state learns of a recording that provides evidence sufficient to charge the offender; or (3) a person confesses to the offense. Specifies that a person commits human trafficking if the person pays money to a human trafficking victim. (Current law provides that the person commits the offense by paying money for a human trafficking victim.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 48"
citation: "Indiana SB 48 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Crimes Against Children", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes", "CRIMINAL JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kyle Walker", "Michael Crider", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d049a69d-de04-4c6c-9cce-fe6f511519b3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/48"
source_hash: "677f54ccf4adb24577709956ad8299c2708c5948d1b8a536412967810c1b33bd"
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 48 (2023) — Child sex offenses.

Provides that a criminal prosecution of a sex offense committed against a child that is otherwise barred by the statute of limitations may nevertheless be commenced within five years from the date on which: (1) the state discovers DNA evidence; (2) the state learns of a recording that provides evidence sufficient to charge the offender; or (3) a person confesses to the offense. Specifies that a person commits human trafficking if the person pays money to a human trafficking victim. (Current law provides that the person commits the offense by paying money for a human trafficking victim.)

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0048/versions/SB0048.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0048/versions/SB0048.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0048/versions/SB0048.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0048/versions/SB0048.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 48 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — 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`
- **2023-01-10** Senator Walker K added as second author
- **2023-01-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-19** Senators Freeman, Sandlin, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
- **2023-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 50, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2023-01-24** Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
- **2023-01-25** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** Representative Rowray E added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 258: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Public Law 3 `became-law`
- **2023-04-05** 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/d049a69d-de04-4c6c-9cce-fe6f511519b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).