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Bill
Domestic violence.
Provides that a person arrested for certain crimes committed against a family or household member may not be released on bail for 24 hours. Provides that a charge of invasion of privacy is elevated to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior unrelated criminal stalking conviction. Provides that certain crimes are considered a serious violent felony for the purposes of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
us/states/in
Indiana General Assembly
2023
SB 158
Indiana SB 158 (2023)
ABUSE generally
CRIMES AND OFFENSES
Offenses Against Persons
enacted
Chris Garten
Michael Crider
Scott Baldwin
Wendy McNamara
5
30
1
2023-01-09
2023-04-20
openstates
ocd-bill/c96cb5fa-cbb9-4873-b1b2-478b2f52a2e6
http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/158
a7d2a9960d97b3f7d713040a059e78cf2664e8f5eb3e969d6d4f6cc13c7ea9f3
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
Indiana SB 158 (2023) — Domestic violence.
Provides that a person arrested for certain crimes committed against a family or household member may not be released on bail for 24 hours. Provides that a charge of invasion of privacy is elevated to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior unrelated criminal stalking conviction. Provides that certain crimes are considered a serious violent felony for the purposes of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
SB 158 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 94– 0 (pass) · lower
Chris Garten — primary (person)
Michael Crider — primary (person)
Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
Elizabeth Rowray — cosponsor (person)
Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-01-09 Authored by Senator Crider
2023-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
2023-01-11 Senator Garten added as second author
2023-01-11 Senator Baldwin added as third author
2023-01-19 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
2023-01-19 Senators Sandlin, Bohacek, Freeman, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
2023-01-26 Senator Becker added as coauthor
2023-01-31 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2023-02-09 Amendment #10 (Young M) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
2023-02-09 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
2023-02-09 Amendment #11 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
2023-02-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 101: yeas 47, nays 2 passage, reading-3, reading-3
2023-02-13 House sponsor: Representative McNamara
2023-02-13 Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
2023-02-13 Senator Alting added as coauthor
2023-02-14 Referred to the House referral
2023-02-27 Representative Rowray E added as cosponsor
2023-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
2023-03-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
2023-03-16 Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
2023-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
2023-03-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 279: yeas 94, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
2023-03-22 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
2023-04-03 Motion to concur filed filing
2023-04-04 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 317: yeas 48, nays 0
2023-04-06 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
2023-04-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
2023-04-17 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
2023-04-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
2023-04-20 Public Law 28 became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/c96cb5fa-cbb9-4873-b1b2-478b2f52a2e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).