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Bill Public safety matters. Provides that a unit shall provide by ordinance the number of police reserve officers a law enforcement agency may appoint. Provides that the law enforcement training board may revoke, suspend, modify, or restrict a document showing compliance and qualifications for a unit's police reserve officer who has committed misconduct. Provides that a law enforcement agency hiring a police reserve officer must contact every other law enforcement agency that employed (or employs) the applicant and request the applicant's employment file and disciplinary record. Provides that a special law enforcement officer employed by the city of Indianapolis full time after June 30, 2023, to perform park ranger duties (park ranger) is subject to the same training requirements as regular law enforcement officers. Provides that the facilities of the Indiana law enforcement academy must be used to provide a park ranger with the required basic training. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2023 SB 187 Indiana SB 187 (2023)
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LAW ENFORCEMENT
Academy and Training
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Aaron Freeman
Jack Sandlin
Mike Speedy
6 48 1 2023-01-09 2023-05-04 openstates ocd-bill/ab606080-2025-4ffc-bcda-f4639a72940f http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/187 0038def1ff1e2e74beb9e5205dda00856a03e7fe4015723934f9e9d5a92d1100 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana SB 187 (2023) — Public safety matters.

Provides that a unit shall provide by ordinance the number of police reserve officers a law enforcement agency may appoint. Provides that the law enforcement training board may revoke, suspend, modify, or restrict a document showing compliance and qualifications for a unit's police reserve officer who has committed misconduct. Provides that a law enforcement agency hiring a police reserve officer must contact every other law enforcement agency that employed (or employs) the applicant and request the applicant's employment file and disciplinary record. Provides that a special law enforcement officer employed by the city of Indianapolis full time after June 30, 2023, to perform park ranger duties (park ranger) is subject to the same training requirements as regular law enforcement officers. Provides that the facilities of the Indiana law enforcement academy must be used to provide a park ranger with the required basic training.

Version chain

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

  1. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (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 (H) (committee substitute) — source
  6. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SB 187 - Sandlin - 3rd Reading — 500 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
  • Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
  • Mike Speedy — primary (person)
  • Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
  • Randall Frye — cosponsor (person)
  • Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-09 Authored by Senator Sandlin
  • 2023-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-01-19 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-01-23 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-01-23 Senator Freeman added as second author
  • 2023-01-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 19: yeas 50, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-01-24 House sponsor: Representative Speedy
  • 2023-01-24 Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
  • 2023-01-25 Referred to the House referral
  • 2023-02-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public Safety reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-03-16 Representative Frye added as cosponsor
  • 2023-03-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-03-20 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
  • 2023-03-21 Representative Lauer added as cosponsor
  • 2023-04-11 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-04-13 Amendment #1 (Speedy) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2023-04-13 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-04-17 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 98, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-04-18 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
  • 2023-04-18 Motion to dissent filed filing
  • 2023-04-18 Senate dissented from House amendments
  • 2023-04-18 Senate conferees appointed: Sandlin and Taylor G
  • 2023-04-18 Senate advisors appointed: Pol and Freeman
  • 2023-04-19 House conferees appointed: Speedy and Pack
  • 2023-04-19 House advisors appointed: Davis, Payne and Gore
  • 2023-04-24 Representative Davis removed as advisor
  • 2023-04-24 Representative Pack removed as conferee
  • 2023-04-24 Representative Davis added as conferee
  • 2023-04-25 Senator Freeman removed as advisor
  • 2023-04-25 Senator Taylor G removed as conferee
  • 2023-04-25 Senator Freeman added as conferee
  • 2023-04-25 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2023-04-25 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
  • 2023-04-25 Motion to withdraw CCR #1: prevailed
  • 2023-04-26 CCR # 2 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2023-04-26 Representative Speedy removed as conferee
  • 2023-04-26 Representative Smaltz added as conferee
  • 2023-04-26 Motion to withdraw CCR #2: prevailed
  • 2023-04-26 CCR # 3 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2023-04-26 CCR # 2 filed in the House filing
  • 2023-04-26 CCR # 3 filed in the House filing
  • 2023-04-26 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 3: adopted by the House; Roll Call 521: yeas 80, nays 13
  • 2023-04-27 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 3: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 502: yeas 41, nays 7
  • 2023-04-28 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2023-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-01 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2023-05-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-04 Public Law 173 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab606080-2025-4ffc-bcda-f4639a72940f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).