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type: "Bill"
title: "Local or regional justice reinvestment advisory councils."
description: "Establishes a local or regional justice reinvestment advisory council (local or regional advisory council) in each county in Indiana. Provides that the purpose of a local or regional advisory council is to review local or regional criminal justice systems, policies, and procedures. Provides that the justice reinvestment advisory council shall assist local or regional advisory councils with promoting: (1) the use of evidence based practices; and (2) certain best practices of community based alternatives and recidivism reduction programs. Sets forth duties of local or regional advisory councils."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1068"
citation: "Indiana HB 1068 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL JUSTICE", "INDIANA CODE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Randall Frye", "Susan Glick"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-04"
last_action: "2021-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f69d99c-26b7-4873-9eaa-f6c49f7ef914"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1068"
source_hash: "78958d4a01cdbf70af33e4d9c967d7f957fd42de0d95a6c649961f5708f20963"
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 HB 1068 (2021) — Local or regional justice reinvestment advisory councils.
Establishes a local or regional justice reinvestment advisory council (local or regional advisory council) in each county in Indiana. Provides that the purpose of a local or regional advisory council is to review local or regional criminal justice systems, policies, and procedures. Provides that the justice reinvestment advisory council shall assist local or regional advisory councils with promoting: (1) the use of evidence based practices; and (2) certain best practices of community based alternatives and recidivism reduction programs. Sets forth duties of local or regional advisory councils.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1068/versions/HB1068.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1068/versions/HB1068.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1068/versions/HB1068.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1068/versions/HB1068.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1068/versions/HB1068.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1068 - Frye - 3rd Reading — **950** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Randall Frye — primary (person)
- Susan Glick — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-04** Authored by Representative Frye R
- **2021-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representatives McNamara and Steuerwald added as coauthors
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 36: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 228: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-16** Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-16** Senator Glick added as third sponsor
- **2021-03-17** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-22** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-03-25** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 303: yeas 66, nays 18 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-29** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-03-31** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-08** Public Law 30
- **2021-04-08** 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/4f69d99c-26b7-4873-9eaa-f6c49f7ef914`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).