republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-209.md

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Bill	Search warrants.	Provides that a warrant authorizing a search, testing, or other analysis of an item is deemed executed when the item is seized. Provides that a warrant return is sufficient if the return contains a statement indicating that the item was seized by a law enforcement officer.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 209	Indiana SB 209 (2020)	bill	CELL PHONES WARRANTS	enacted	Eric Koch Michael Crider Wendy McNamara	4	22	2	2020-01-06	2020-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/6eb7ef45-9501-4cb3-a4c4-b92525ab407b	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/209	11385b1903a1fd63a89496f8cab807a2190da720f7faeea810d18e7275eae753	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 209 (2020) — Search warrants.

Provides that a warrant authorizing a search, testing, or other analysis of an item is deemed executed when the item is seized. Provides that a warrant return is sufficient if the return contains a statement indicating that the item was seized by a law enforcement officer.

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 209 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 209 - Crider - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Michael Young — coauthor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Crider
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Senator Koch added as second author
• 2020-01-30 Senators Young M and Bohacek added as coauthors
• 2020-01-30 Senators Rogers and Glick added as coauthors
• 2020-01-30 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2020-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-04 House sponsor: Representative McNamara
• 2020-02-04 Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
• 2020-02-05 Referred to the House
• 2020-02-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-02-27 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-03-02 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 94, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-03-04 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-03-16 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2020-03-18 Public Law 63

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6eb7ef45-9501-4cb3-a4c4-b92525ab407b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).