republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1167.md

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Bill	Exceptions to paraphernalia statutes.	Provides that the controlled substance paraphernalia statutes do not apply to items marketed to detect the presence of a drug or controlled substance.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1167	Indiana HB 1167 (2025)	bill	CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Illicit Drugs Substances and Alcohol Offenses	enacted	Brett Clark Jennifer Meltzer	4	22	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/64074e1d-bd13-4e83-bf4d-85d07404189b	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1167	32cb15f177ba62f86bf690ad6c77ea8112eeee59ae0d9f11eddb76ba191709aa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1167 (2025) — Exceptions to paraphernalia statutes.

Provides that the controlled substance paraphernalia statutes do not apply to items marketed to detect the presence of a drug or controlled substance.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1167 - Clark - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1167 - Meltzer - 3rd Reading — 91–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brett Clark — primary (person)
• Jennifer Meltzer — primary (person)
• Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
• Robin Shackleford — coauthor (person)
• Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
• Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
• Susan Glick — cosponsor (person)
• Tyler Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Authored by Representative Meltzer
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Coauthored by Representative Garcia Wilburn
• 2025-01-21 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-28 Senate sponsor: Senator Clark
• 2025-01-28 Representatives Zimmerman and Shackleford added as coauthors
• 2025-01-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 91, nays 2 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-28 Cosponsor: Senator Johnson T
• 2025-01-29 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Senators Glick and Pol added as cosponsors
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Senator Yoder added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 266: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-10 Public Law 53 became-law
• 2025-04-10 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64074e1d-bd13-4e83-bf4d-85d07404189b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).