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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 43"
citation: "Indiana SB 43 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Environment", "PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES", "WEAPONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Tomes", "Jim Lucas", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ba4f22e-162e-46eb-9a89-4b84ce70a956"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/43"
source_hash: "ae1e3a1a25ec8ec56446e749005cff10937246fc850a9388b23cb942328edd51"
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 43 (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. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.04.comh)
## Votes
- SB 43 - Lucas - 3rd Reading — **7616** (pass) · legislature
- SB 43 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — **409** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- James Tomes — primary (person)
- Jim Lucas — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Brandt Hershman — coauthor (person)
- Chris Judy — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Michael Delph — coauthor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Philip Boots — coauthor (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Tomes
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** Senator Head added as second author
- **2017-02-20** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Amendment #1 (Tomes) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-21** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senators Kruse and Doriot added as coauthors
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 40, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Lucas
- **2017-02-23** Cosponsor: Representative Macer
- **2017-02-23** Senator Glick added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Senators Charbonneau, Hershman, Ford, Buck, Boots, Brown L, Eckerty, Young M added as coauthors
- **2017-02-27** Senators Crane, Niemeyer, Koch, Walker, Messmer, Houchin, Freeman, Crider, Leising, Sandlin, Delph, Becker added as coauthors
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Representative Judy added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #1 (Arnold L) failed; Roll Call 312: yeas 46, nays 47 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #2 (Lucas) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 330: yeas 76, nays 16 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-30** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-03** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 346: yeas 39, nays 7 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 181
- **2017-04-26** 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/0ba4f22e-162e-46eb-9a89-4b84ce70a956`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).