republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-9.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic monitoring standards."
description: "Requires the justice reinvestment advisory council to conduct a review of statutes concerning electronic monitoring and home detention and provide a recommendation with regard to electronic monitoring standards to the legislative council in an electronic format not later than December 1, 2022. Establishes standards, including notification time frames, for persons and entities responsible for monitoring individuals required to wear a monitoring device as a condition of probation, parole, pretrial release, or community corrections. Provides immunity for acts or omissions performed in connection with implementing monitoring standards. Provides that a defendant commits escape if: (1) the defendant disables or interferes with the operation of an electronic monitoring device; or (2) the defendant violates certain conditions of home detention (under current law, any violation of a condition of home detention constitutes escape). Makes escape committed by a juvenile status offender a status offense under certain circumstances. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "Indiana SB 9 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BAIL AND BAIL BONDSMEN", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Juvenile Delinquents", "CORRECTION", "Community Programs", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "PAROLE AND PROBATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Torr", "Kyle Walker", "Michael Crider", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5f0eb03-7fda-44ea-97af-d2946e2fabb3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/9"
source_hash: "7e29675ee67011d37b07e27895add20f659aeddb667fcc833fdc713d3c16548b"
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 9 (2022) — Electronic monitoring standards.

Requires the justice reinvestment advisory council to conduct a review of statutes concerning electronic monitoring and home detention and provide a recommendation with regard to electronic monitoring standards to the legislative council in an electronic format not later than December 1, 2022. Establishes standards, including notification time frames, for persons and entities responsible for monitoring individuals required to wear a monitoring device as a condition of probation, parole, pretrial release, or community corrections. Provides immunity for acts or omissions performed in connection with implementing monitoring standards. Provides that a defendant commits escape if: (1) the defendant disables or interferes with the operation of an electronic monitoring device; or (2) the defendant violates certain conditions of home detention (under current law, any violation of a condition of home detention constitutes escape). Makes escape committed by a juvenile status offender a status offense under certain circumstances. Makes conforming amendments.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.05.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0009/versions/SB0009.02.COMS)

## Sponsors

- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Mike Speedy — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Authored by Senators Walker K, Crider and Young M
- **2022-01-04** Coauthored by Senators Sandlin and Freeman
- **2022-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Amendment #1 (Walker K) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Amendment #3 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 64: yeas 46, nays 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** House sponsor: Representative Torr
- **2022-01-25** Cosponsors: Representatives Behning, Speedy, Jeter C
- **2022-01-25** Senator Koch added as coauthor
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2022-01-31** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Amendment #2 (Torr) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 272: yeas 85, nays 2 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-25** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-28** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2022-03-02** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 316: yeas 47, nays 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-11** Public Law 84
- **2022-03-11** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5f0eb03-7fda-44ea-97af-d2946e2fabb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).