republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/hb-1346.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Jail overcrowding.	Repeals all provisions concerning the county jail overcrowding task force. Adds additional members to the justice reinvestment advisory council ("advisory council"), including members of the Indiana evidence based decision making initiative (which is a partnership between state and local criminal justice stakeholders). Specifies the purpose and certain duties of the advisory council, including: (1) to conduct a state level review and evaluation of jail overcrowding to identify a range of possible solutions; and (2) to develop incarceration alternatives and recidivism reduction programs at the county and community level by promoting the development of the incorporation of evidence based decision making into decisions concerning jail overcrowding. Provides that the advisory council may make a recommendation to the county sheriffs concerning strategies to address jail overcrowding and implementing evidence based practices for reducing recidivism for individuals in county jails. Requires the criminal justice institute to coordinate with state and local criminal justice agencies for the collection and transfer of data from sheriffs concerning jail: (1) populations; and (2) statistics; for the purpose of providing jail data to the management performance hub.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	HB 1346	Indiana HB 1346 (2020)	bill	CORRECTION Institutions and Inmates CRIMINAL JUSTICE	enacted	Eric Koch Michael Young Randall Frye	4	22	2	2020-01-08	2020-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/68a4b5a7-aa2d-4f4d-a54d-135dcbd9081c	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1346	ba1ebf5e7f7f7f393f7d9858eb3db35ff58c75e74d692bba5f1c1812c18d81fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1346 (2020) — Jail overcrowding.

Repeals all provisions concerning the county jail overcrowding task force. Adds additional members to the justice reinvestment advisory council ("advisory council"), including members of the Indiana evidence based decision making initiative (which is a partnership between state and local criminal justice stakeholders). Specifies the purpose and certain duties of the advisory council, including: (1) to conduct a state level review and evaluation of jail overcrowding to identify a range of possible solutions; and (2) to develop incarceration alternatives and recidivism reduction programs at the county and community level by promoting the development of the incorporation of evidence based decision making into decisions concerning jail overcrowding. Provides that the advisory council may make a recommendation to the county sheriffs concerning strategies to address jail overcrowding and implementing evidence based practices for reducing recidivism for individuals in county jails. Requires the criminal justice institute to coordinate with state and local criminal justice agencies for the collection and transfer of data from sheriffs concerning jail: (1) populations; and (2) statistics; for the purpose of providing jail data to the management performance hub.

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1346 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1346 - Frye - 3rd Reading — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Randall Frye — primary (person)
• Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-08 Authored by Representative Frye R
• 2020-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-13 Representatives Steuerwald, DeLaney, Hatfield added as coauthors
• 2020-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-28 Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
• 2020-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 110: yeas 99, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-29 Referred to the Senate
• 2020-02-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-18 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2020-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 248: yeas 45, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-25 Senator Young M added as second sponsor
• 2020-02-26 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
• 2020-03-03 Motion to concur filed
• 2020-03-04 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-04 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 309: yeas 93, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-11 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-30 Public Law 48

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/68a4b5a7-aa2d-4f4d-a54d-135dcbd9081c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).