republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-23.md

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Bill	Damage to a penal facility.	Provides that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally damages a component of an automatic building fire suppression system that is located in a penal facility commits criminal mischief, a Level 6 felony.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 23	Indiana SB 23 (2024)	bill	BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses	enacted	Michael Crider Mitch Gore Vaneta Becker	4	35	5	2024-01-08	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b6611312-2f0e-4773-97e7-5e56aecbb9fe	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0023	9185e0364b7d92f8aabf80826b3e5fdbb6650d4499c360c65b539917fc5129ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 23 (2024) — Damage to a penal facility.

Provides that a person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally damages a component of an automatic building fire suppression system that is located in a penal facility commits criminal mischief, a Level 6 felony.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 23 - Gore - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 23 - Becker — 20–25 (fail) · upper
• SB 23 - Gore — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 23 - Becker — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 23 - Becker - 3rd Reading — 47–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Mitch Gore — primary (person)
• Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
• Michael Young — coauthor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Sharon Negele — cosponsor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
• Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Senators Becker and Crider
• 2024-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Senators Bohacek, Freeman, Glick added as coauthors
• 2024-01-29 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 58: yeas 47, nays 2 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 House sponsor: Representative Gore
• 2024-01-30 Cosponsor: Representative Ledbetter
• 2024-01-31 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-22 Representative Negele added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2024-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 215: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2024-02-29 Concurrence failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 240: yeas 20, nays 25 failure
• 2024-02-29 Concurrence rescinded
• 2024-02-29 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2024-02-29 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2024-03-04 Senator Young M added as coauthor
• 2024-03-04 House advisors appointed: Negele, McNamara, Pierce M and Shackleford
• 2024-03-04 House conferees appointed: Ledbetter and Gore
• 2024-03-05 Senate conferees appointed: Becker and Pol
• 2024-03-05 Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G and Crider
• 2024-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2024-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2024-03-07 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 318: yeas 89, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 306: yeas 48, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 100 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6611312-2f0e-4773-97e7-5e56aecbb9fe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).