republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-181.md

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Bill	Citizenship and immigration status.	Provides that, if the attorney general determines probable cause exists, the attorney general, rather than any person lawfully domiciled in Indiana, shall bring an action to compel a governmental body or postsecondary educational institution to comply with statutes requiring cooperation with federal immigration officials. Requires a court to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard to enjoin the violation of those statutes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 181	Indiana SB 181 (2024)	bill	FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; Citizenship and Immigration HIGHER EDUCATION; Colleges and Universities (Including Ivy Tech) STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS; Attorney General STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally	enacted	Chris Jeter Eric Koch Michael Crider	4	30	2	2024-01-09	2024-03-12	openstates	ocd-bill/e30f8c9b-2051-47ce-8cc4-ac0d652abd08	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0181	c89bd1a96b9098b37bfdd50fe679518027725620f8635d47b581b94414d97f82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 181 (2024) — Citizenship and immigration status.

Provides that, if the attorney general determines probable cause exists, the attorney general, rather than any person lawfully domiciled in Indiana, shall bring an action to compel a governmental body or postsecondary educational institution to comply with statutes requiring cooperation with federal immigration officials. Requires a court to apply a preponderance of the evidence standard to enjoin the violation of those statutes.

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 (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 181 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — 70–23 (pass) · lower
• SB 181 - Koch - 3rd Reading — 37–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Jeter — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
• Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
• Chuck Goodrich — cosponsor (person)
• Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
• Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
• Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
• Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
• J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• James Tomes — coauthor (person)
• Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — coauthor (person)
• Justin Busch — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
• Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
• Ryan Lauer — cosponsor (person)
• Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
• Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
• Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
• Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
• Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Authored by Senator Koch
• 2024-01-16 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-18 Senators Deery, Dernulc, Donato, Doriot added as coauthors
• 2024-01-18 Senator Crider added as second author
• 2024-01-18 Senators Zay and Busch added as coauthors
• 2024-01-18 Amendment #1 (Tomes) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-01-18 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-22 Senators Holdman, Johnson T, Leising, Messmer added as coauthors
• 2024-01-22 Senators Alexander, Becker, Bohacek, Buchanan added as coauthors
• 2024-01-22 Senators Niemeyer, Raatz, Tomes, Walker G added as coauthors
• 2024-01-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 16: yeas 37, nays 9 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-22 House sponsor: Representative Jeter
• 2024-01-22 Senator Rogers added as coauthor
• 2024-01-22 Senators Freeman, Garten, Gaskill, Goode G added as coauthors
• 2024-01-22 Senators Buck, Byrne, Charbonneau, Crane added as coauthors
• 2024-01-23 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-01-29 Representative Goodrich added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Representative Lauer added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 70, nays 23 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2024-03-04 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-12 Public Law 76 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e30f8c9b-2051-47ce-8cc4-ac0d652abd08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).