republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1287.md

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Bill	Home detention.	Allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program. Provides that a violation of certain terms of a community corrections program placement constitutes escape. Repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor. Repeals a provision that requires the court to suspend a period of an individual's sentence if placed in a community corrections program. Provides that if a person on home detention knowingly and intentionally: (1) leaves the person's home; (2) remains outside of the person's home; or (3) travels to an unauthorized location; in violation of the home detention order and without written permission commits escape, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the court may not suspend the minimum sentence for a Level 3 felony if the person has a juvenile adjudication for certain offenses committed within three years of the commission of the Level 3 felony. Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.) Makes conforming changes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	HB 1287	Indiana HB 1287 (2023)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS Juvenile Courts and Proceedings CORRECTION Community Programs CRIMES AND OFFENSES Criminal Courts and Court Procedures CRIMES AND OFFENSES Sentencing	enacted	Aaron Freeman Eric Koch Jennifer Meltzer Michael Young	5	26	1	2023-01-11	2023-04-20	openstates	ocd-bill/1f463087-a52c-4fd4-b435-18bce56794d3	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1287	8ac5cfd7bd67f4187e438e1a24c56f4c33e7c339e65c2cae8d513774828eda4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1287 (2023) — Home detention.

Allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program. Provides that a violation of certain terms of a community corrections program placement constitutes escape. Repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor. Repeals a provision that requires the court to suspend a period of an individual's sentence if placed in a community corrections program. Provides that if a person on home detention knowingly and intentionally: (1) leaves the person's home; (2) remains outside of the person's home; or (3) travels to an unauthorized location; in violation of the home detention order and without written permission commits escape, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the court may not suspend the minimum sentence for a Level 3 felony if the person has a juvenile adjudication for certain offenses committed within three years of the commission of the Level 3 felony. Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.) Makes conforming changes.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1287 - Meltzer J - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Jennifer Meltzer — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
• Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
• Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)
• Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-11 Authored by Representative Meltzer
• 2023-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-19 Representative Lindauer added as coauthor
• 2023-01-31 Representative Garcia Wilburn V added as coauthor
• 2023-02-02 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-06 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-06 Representative Jeter C added as coauthor
• 2023-02-07 Senate sponsor: Senator Koch
• 2023-02-07 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 90: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-08 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2023-02-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-07 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-03-09 Senator Freeman added as second sponsor
• 2023-03-14 Senator Young M added as third sponsor
• 2023-03-20 Amendment #2 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2023-03-20 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-03-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 242: yeas 43, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-03-21 Senator Pol added as cosponsor
• 2023-03-22 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2023-03-27 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2023-03-28 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 324: yeas 94, nays 0
• 2023-04-03 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-04-04 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-17 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-04-20 Public Law 72 became-law
• 2023-04-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f463087-a52c-4fd4-b435-18bce56794d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).