republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-159.md

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Bill	Procedures for obtaining a warrant.	Specifies that a request for a warrant made orally by telephone, radio, or similar electronic means must be recorded and typed or transcribed. (Under current law, the judge is required to record the request, and the court reporter to type or transcribe it.) Permits certain warrant requests to be: (1) made electronically (where current law only allows this by radio or telephone); and (2) recorded electronically (where current law only permits the use of audio tape). Requires the prosecuting attorney and a law enforcement agency to maintain all requests for warrants, and to provide them to a defendant in discovery.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 159	Indiana SB 159 (2025)	bill	CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents COURTS; Judges CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Prosecuting Attorneys (Non-Elected) CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Warrants LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally TECHNOLOGY; Computers Cell Phones and Devices TECHNOLOGY; Generally	enacted	Aaron Freeman Garrett Bascom Mike Bohacek	4	23	3	2025-01-08	2025-04-30	openstates	ocd-bill/e0c1bc84-3ad4-48cc-8274-90798973a958	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0159	66b02a4d1c12392c1931a4e11dbe63a5318066bf79b07a7c984bba6f47c69070	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 159 (2025) — Procedures for obtaining a warrant.

Specifies that a request for a warrant made orally by telephone, radio, or similar electronic means must be recorded and typed or transcribed. (Under current law, the judge is required to record the request, and the court reporter to type or transcribe it.) Permits certain warrant requests to be: (1) made electronically (where current law only allows this by radio or telephone); and (2) recorded electronically (where current law only permits the use of audio tape). Requires the prosecuting attorney and a law enforcement agency to maintain all requests for warrants, and to provide them to a defendant in discovery.

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 159 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 159 - Bascom - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 159 - Freeman — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Garrett Bascom — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Freeman
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-16 Senator Bohacek added as second author
• 2025-01-21 Senators Pol, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
• 2025-01-21 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-21 Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 15: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-01-23 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2025-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Bascom
• 2025-01-24 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-21 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-16 Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 455: yeas 38, nays 0
• 2025-04-17 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-22 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-30 Public Law 113 became-law
• 2025-04-30 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e0c1bc84-3ad4-48cc-8274-90798973a958. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).