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type: "Bill"
title: "Expungement issues."
description: "Defines \"protection order records\" and requires companies that provide background checks to periodically review their records and remove records relating to expunged protection orders (in the same manner as expunged convictions are removed). Permits a person to expunge protection order records in connection with the denial of an ex parte petition for a protection order. Provides that if a court reduces a Class D or Level 6 felony to a misdemeanor, the five-year waiting period for expungement begins on the date of the felony conviction and not on the date the felony was converted to a misdemeanor. Provides that, if a person whose records have been expunged seeks employment with a law enforcement agency or a probation or community corrections department, the law enforcement agency or the probation or community corrections department may: (1) inquire about the person's expunged records; and (2) refuse to employ the person. Specifies the procedure to expunge records of a collateral action entered in a different county than the county which issued the expungement order."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "Indiana SB 47 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal Courts and Court Procedures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "John Young", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23b8e3b7-0fe2-4128-9a02-24febb679c5e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/47"
source_hash: "4116907216935013f1a4778e488b233a18e8e052258c984d331e13fb0140f503"
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 47 (2020) — Expungement issues.
Defines "protection order records" and requires companies that provide background checks to periodically review their records and remove records relating to expunged protection orders (in the same manner as expunged convictions are removed). Permits a person to expunge protection order records in connection with the denial of an ex parte petition for a protection order. Provides that if a court reduces a Class D or Level 6 felony to a misdemeanor, the five-year waiting period for expungement begins on the date of the felony conviction and not on the date the felony was converted to a misdemeanor. Provides that, if a person whose records have been expunged seeks employment with a law enforcement agency or a probation or community corrections department, the law enforcement agency or the probation or community corrections department may: (1) inquire about the person's expunged records; and (2) refuse to employ the person. Specifies the procedure to expunge records of a collateral action entered in a different county than the county which issued the expungement order.
## 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/2020/bills/SB0047/versions/SB0047.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0047/versions/SB0047.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0047/versions/SB0047.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0047/versions/SB0047.03.COMH)
## Votes
- SB 47 - Young J - 3rd Reading — **885** (pass) · lower
- SB 47 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — **473** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- John Young — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Philip Boots — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Senator Koch added as second author
- **2020-01-14** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2020-01-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Senator Boots added as coauthor
- **2020-01-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 54: yeas 47, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-27** House sponsor: Representative Young J
- **2020-01-28** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 88, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-05** Concurrence withdrawn
- **2020-03-05** Motion to dissent filed
- **2020-03-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-09** Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Tallian
- **2020-03-09** Senate advisors appointed: Koch and Taylor G
- **2020-03-09** House conferees appointed: Young J and Pierce
- **2020-03-09** House advisors appointed: McNamara, May, Beck and Hatcher
- **2020-03-10** Senator Tallian removed as conferee
- **2020-03-10** Senator Young M added as conferee
- **2020-03-11** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2020-03-11** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2020-03-11** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 381: yeas 41, nays 8
- **2020-03-11** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 386: yeas 89, nays 4
- **2020-03-12** 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 55
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23b8e3b7-0fe2-4128-9a02-24febb679c5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).