republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1687.md

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Bill	Probation transfers for sex or violent offenders.	Prohibits the transfer of a sex or violent offender's probation jurisdiction to another county in Indiana while the offender is required to register as an offender unless certain conditions are met. Prohibits a sexually violent predator or an offender against children from working in any setting where the predator or offender: (1) has more than incidental and occasional contact with a child who is not accompanied by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; (2) has supervisory or disciplinary power over a child; or (3) is expected to touch a child on a more than incidental and occasional basis.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1687	Indiana HB 1687 (2025)	bill	CORRECTIONS; Community Corrections CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Sentencing CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Sex Offenses	enacted	Ben Smaltz Eric Koch Scott Alexander Tyler Johnson	4	26	3	2025-01-21	2025-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/d999aaa7-8ab7-43b1-9823-bd93d1694792	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1687	d614661d3395d48e83b16cd2774ca7c3ff766982f28e39c5179189529d73e6c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1687 (2025) — Probation transfers for sex or violent offenders.

Prohibits the transfer of a sex or violent offender's probation jurisdiction to another county in Indiana while the offender is required to register as an offender unless certain conditions are met. Prohibits a sexually violent predator or an offender against children from working in any setting where the predator or offender: (1) has more than incidental and occasional contact with a child who is not accompanied by the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; (2) has supervisory or disciplinary power over a child; or (3) is expected to touch a child on a more than incidental and occasional basis.

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 1687 - Smaltz - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1687 - Smaltz — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1687 - Johnson T - 3rd Reading — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Smaltz — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Scott Alexander — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
• Craig Snow — coauthor (person)
• Cyndi Carrasco — cosponsor (person)
• Daryl Schmitt — cosponsor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-21 Authored by Representative Smaltz
• 2025-01-21 Coauthored by Representatives Gore, Zimmerman, Snow
• 2025-01-21 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Senate sponsor: Senator Johnson T
• 2025-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-19 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Senator Alexander added as second sponsor
• 2025-03-18 Senator Koch added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-18 Senator Carrasco added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Senator Koch removed as cosponsor
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 277: yeas 47, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-24 Senator Koch added as third sponsor
• 2025-03-24 Senator Schmitt added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-27 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-01 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 355: yeas 94, nays 0
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-16 Public Law 98 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d999aaa7-8ab7-43b1-9823-bd93d1694792. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).