republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-344.md

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Bill	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.	A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2017	SB 344	Indiana SB 344 (2017)	bill	WEAPONS ALIENS Illegal CRIMES AND OFFENSES Weapons	enacted	Eric Koch Jim Lucas John Crane Michael Young	4	20	2	2017-01-09	2017-04-13	openstates	ocd-bill/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/344	495a7c7ebc34f91af66bfef02762b8a8564c4e6b0b6c08ef0327d0f2cefa48d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 344 (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
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 344 - Young M - 3rd Reading — 44–4 (pass) · legislature
• SB 344 - Lucas - 3rd Reading — 91–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jim Lucas — primary (person)
• John Crane — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Ben Smaltz — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Authored by Senator Young R Michael
• 2017-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Senator Koch added as second author
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-20 Senator Crane added as third author
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 157: yeas 44, nays 4 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-21 House sponsor: Representative Lucas
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the House
• 2017-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-23 Representative Smaltz added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 340: yeas 91, nays 1 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-29 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2017-03-30 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-12 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-13 Public Law 63
• 2017-04-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e5b0e63f-7d91-46fd-8d39-2a7f753c4dd1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).