republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-70.md

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Bill	Obstruction of justice.	Provides that a person commits obstruction of justice if the person induces a witness in a legal proceeding to: (1) withhold or delay producing evidence that the witness is legally required to produce; (2) avoid a subpoena or court order; (3) not appear at a proceeding to which the witness has been summoned; or (4) give a false or materially misleading statement. Provides that a person commits obstruction of justice, as a Level 5 felony, if the person induces a witness to give a false or materially misleading statement during the investigation or pendency of a domestic violence or child abuse case. Establishes a uniform definition of "communicates" for the criminal code. Makes other changes and conforming amendments.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 70	Indiana SB 70 (2022)	bill	ATTORNEYS CRIMES AND OFFENSES Offenses Against Public Administration WITNESSES	enacted	Erin Houchin Michael Crider Michael Young Wendy McNamara	5	26	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-07	openstates	ocd-bill/4b398139-c55a-4ea1-a5fb-26ac87b22fab	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/70	c22e5d5472a2235e030a1d831c92846ae0cf846f49199d4cb5da54e2a1ec39d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 70 (2022) — Obstruction of justice.

Provides that a person commits obstruction of justice if the person induces a witness in a legal proceeding to: (1) withhold or delay producing evidence that the witness is legally required to produce; (2) avoid a subpoena or court order; (3) not appear at a proceeding to which the witness has been summoned; or (4) give a false or materially misleading statement. Provides that a person commits obstruction of justice, as a Level 5 felony, if the person induces a witness to give a false or materially misleading statement during the investigation or pendency of a domestic violence or child abuse case. Establishes a uniform definition of "communicates" for the criminal code. Makes other changes and conforming amendments.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 70 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Erin Houchin — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Authored by Senator Crider
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-11 Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-01-11 Amendment #2 (Taylor G) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2022-01-11 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-11 Senator Houchin added as second author
• 2022-01-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 39, nays 8 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-18 House sponsor: Representative McNamara
• 2022-01-19 Referred to the House
• 2022-01-31 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-01 Senator Houchin removed as second author
• 2022-02-01 Senator Young M added as second author
• 2022-02-01 Senator Houchin added as third author
• 2022-02-17 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-21 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 226: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-23 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-02-23 Motion to concur filed
• 2022-02-24 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 262: yeas 47, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2022-02-28 Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
• 2022-03-01 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-04 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-07 Public Law 5
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-07 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b398139-c55a-4ea1-a5fb-26ac87b22fab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).