republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-198.md

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Bill	Crime of swatting.	Specifies that, for purposes of the crime of false informing, hindering a "law enforcement process" includes causing a law enforcement officer to be dispatched. Enhances the penalty for making a false report that a person is dangerous to a Level 6 felony if the offense would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 198	Indiana SB 198 (2025)	bill	CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally	enacted	Aaron Freeman Andrew Ireland Eric Koch	4	22	3	2025-01-08	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/13cd9cac-81da-466e-9dd1-29551a468b0e	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0198	9a5db21145e9ffd106adca80831f3e3072f9ff00712179a275fb87defd81b7ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 198 (2025) — Crime of swatting.

Specifies that, for purposes of the crime of false informing, hindering a "law enforcement process" includes causing a law enforcement officer to be dispatched. Enhances the penalty for making a false report that a person is dangerous to a Level 6 felony if the offense would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened.

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 198 - Ireland - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 198 - Freeman — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 198 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — 47–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Andrew Ireland — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• James Buck — coauthor (person)
• Jim Lucas — cosponsor (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
• 2025-02-04 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-06 Senator Koch added as second author
• 2025-02-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-11 House sponsor: Representative Ireland
• 2025-02-11 Senator Buck added as coauthor
• 2025-02-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 47, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-24 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Representative Lucas added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-26 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-25 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 309: yeas 95, 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 456: yeas 34, 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
• 2025-05-01 Public Law 129 became-law
• 2025-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13cd9cac-81da-466e-9dd1-29551a468b0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).