republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-177.md

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Bill	Victim's rights and investigations.	Establishes a procedure permitting an immediate family member of a deceased individual to request the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a new investigation into the death of the individual if: (1) a local law enforcement agency has determined that the death was not the result of a criminal act by a third party; (2) the individual was not under the care of a physician or the victim of medical malpractice; and (3) the family member has a reasonable suspicion that the death was the result of a criminal act by a third party.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 177	Indiana SB 177 (2021)	bill	DEATH LAW ENFORCEMENT State Police VICTIMS OF CRIME	enacted	Mark Messmer Michael Young Steve Bartels	4	21	1	2021-01-05	2021-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/c0a57728-6c63-4257-9f2d-2d8b8cb31151	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/177	1ee2f6f1fcc5e8b462476deb83bf18e8fb4efc1d54f1cc91fefc506e80937933	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 177 (2021) — Victim's rights and investigations.

Establishes a procedure permitting an immediate family member of a deceased individual to request the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a new investigation into the death of the individual if: (1) a local law enforcement agency has determined that the death was not the result of a criminal act by a third party; (2) the individual was not under the care of a physician or the victim of medical malpractice; and (3) the family member has a reasonable suspicion that the death was the result of a criminal act by a third party.

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 177 - Bartels - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Steve Bartels — primary (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-05 Authored by Senator Messmer
• 2021-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-25 Senator Young M added as second author
• 2021-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 47: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-02 House sponsor: Representative Bartels
• 2021-02-02 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2021-02-03 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-04-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 364: yeas 91, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-07 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-07 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-08 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 375: yeas 47, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-13 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-19 Public Law 71

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0a57728-6c63-4257-9f2d-2d8b8cb31151. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).