republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-445.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic monitoring standards."
description: "Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to develop electronic monitoring standards and to submit an annual report as to the standards. Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to conduct a workload study of electronic monitoring and home detention, make certain findings, and submit a report to the legislative council not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a contract employee of a supervising agency is required to notify the supervising agency of certain actions with respect to a tracked individual not later than 12 hours after the action occurs. Requires this notification to be sent within 15 minutes if the tracked individual is serving a sentence for a crime of violence or a crime of domestic or sexual violence, and additionally requires the supervising agency to notify a vulnerable victim and request law enforcement to perform a welfare check, if there is a vulnerable victim. Specifies that a supervising agency must include in a quarterly report the number of tracked individuals who are on parole supervision and the number of false location alerts, device malfunctions, or both. Provides that a local supervising agency shall report directly to the local justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter, and that the division of parole services shall report to the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter. Requires the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council to transmit an annual electronic report to the legislative council and to the judicial conference of Indiana not later than March 15 of each year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 445"
citation: "Indiana SB 445 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTION", "Community Programs", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "PAROLE AND PROBATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Kyle Walker", "Mike Bohacek", "Wendy McNamara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0542af9-1958-4a76-aa94-a360fda08068"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/445"
source_hash: "87df16fc17abb46a008f6320f08ad783fafd8fdaa400e4c6afb892fa16dec83d"
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 445 (2023) — Electronic monitoring standards.

Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to develop electronic monitoring standards and to submit an annual report as to the standards. Permits the justice reinvestment advisory council to conduct a workload study of electronic monitoring and home detention, make certain findings, and submit a report to the legislative council not later than July 1, 2025. Provides that a contract employee of a supervising agency is required to notify the supervising agency of certain actions with respect to a tracked individual not later than 12 hours after the action occurs. Requires this notification to be sent within 15 minutes if the tracked individual is serving a sentence for a crime of violence or a crime of domestic or sexual violence, and additionally requires the supervising agency to notify a vulnerable victim and request law enforcement to perform a welfare check, if there is a vulnerable victim. Specifies that a supervising agency must include in a quarterly report the number of tracked individuals who are on parole supervision and the number of false location alerts, device malfunctions, or both. Provides that a local supervising agency shall report directly to the local justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter, and that the division of parole services shall report to the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council each quarter. Requires the statewide justice reinvestment advisory council to transmit an annual electronic report to the legislative council and to the judicial conference of Indiana not later than March 15 of each year.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0445/versions/SB0445.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0445/versions/SB0445.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0445/versions/SB0445.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0445/versions/SB0445.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0445/versions/SB0445.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 445 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Walker K
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-07** Senator Bohacek added as second author
- **2023-02-07** Senator Freeman added as third author
- **2023-02-07** Senators Koch, Glick, Taylor G, Pol, Sandlin added as coauthors
- **2023-02-09** Amendment #1 (Walker K) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 109: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** House sponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2023-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2023-02-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 263: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-15** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-03-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Public Law 9 `became-law`
- **2023-04-05** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0542af9-1958-4a76-aa94-a360fda08068`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).