---
type: "Bill"
title: "Damage to a penal facility."
description: "Provides that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally damages a component of an automatic building fire suppression system that is located in a penal facility commits criminal mischief, a Level 6 felony."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Indiana SB 23 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael Crider", "Mitch Gore", "Vaneta Becker"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6611312-2f0e-4773-97e7-5e56aecbb9fe"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0023"
source_hash: "9185e0364b7d92f8aabf80826b3e5fdbb6650d4499c360c65b539917fc5129ad"
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 23 (2024) — Damage to a penal facility.

Provides that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally damages a component of an automatic building fire suppression system that is located in a penal facility commits criminal mischief, a Level 6 felony.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0023/SB0023.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0023/SB0023.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0023/SB0023.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0023/SB0023.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 23 - Gore - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 23 - Becker — **20–25** (fail) · upper
- SB 23 - Gore — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 23 - Becker — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 23 - Becker - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Mitch Gore — primary (person)
- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Sharon Negele — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senators Becker and Crider
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-25** Senators Bohacek, Freeman, Glick added as coauthors
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Gore
- **2024-01-30** Cosponsor: Representative Ledbetter
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-22** Representative Negele added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Concurrence failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 240: yeas 20, nays 25 `failure`
- **2024-02-29** Concurrence rescinded
- **2024-02-29** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2024-02-29** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2024-03-04** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2024-03-04** House advisors appointed: Negele, McNamara, Pierce M and Shackleford
- **2024-03-04** House conferees appointed: Ledbetter and Gore
- **2024-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Becker and Pol
- **2024-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Crider
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2024-03-07** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 318: yeas 89, nays 0
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 306: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-13** Public Law 100 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6611312-2f0e-4773-97e7-5e56aecbb9fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).