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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 299"
citation: "Indiana SB 299 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Public Administration", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Public Health", "Order and Decency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Thomas Washburne"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49043852-d168-4f22-ae45-6d1f0c5fb286"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/299"
source_hash: "1aeb082d4c704e25b0d305609205b8b1a4f20488d802452286dc0b1544594742"
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 299 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.
## 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/2017/bills/sb0299/versions/sb0299.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0299/versions/sb0299.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0299/versions/sb0299.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0299/versions/sb0299.03.comh)
## Votes
- SB 299 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **500** (pass) · legislature
- SB 299 - Washburne - 3rd Reading — **890** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Thomas Washburne — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2017-02-21** Senator Tomes added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 226: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Washburne
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2017-02-28** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 336: yeas 89, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 448: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senator Taylor G added as coauthor
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 107
- **2017-04-21** 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/49043852-d168-4f22-ae45-6d1f0c5fb286`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).