republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-219.md

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Bill	Trespass.	Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or their agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or the other person's agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 219	Indiana SB 219 (2025)	bill	CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Property LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally	enacted	Aaron Freeman Brett Clark Craig Haggard Scott Baldwin	4	23	2	2025-01-08	2025-04-03	openstates	ocd-bill/5bd1f60e-220c-4fa4-bf39-c4fb3193013a	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0219	4959a63e1b45a62340a446e44e5d39befb11057817c84dcb97100f9fdc973614	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 219 (2025) — Trespass.

Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or their agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or the other person's agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.

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 219 - Clark - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 219 - Haggard - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Brett Clark — primary (person)
• Craig Haggard — primary (person)
• Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
• Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
• Kyle Pierce — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
• Susan Glick — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Clark
• 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Senator Freeman added as second author
• 2025-01-21 Senator Baldwin added as third author
• 2025-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Senators Koch, Bohacek, Glick added as coauthors
• 2025-01-30 Amendment #1 (Clark) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-01-30 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Senator Alting added as coauthor
• 2025-02-03 House sponsor: Representative Haggard
• 2025-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-02-18 Representatives Steuerwald, Jeter, Pierce K added as cosponsors
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-21 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-03-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-03 Public Law 23 became-law
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5bd1f60e-220c-4fa4-bf39-c4fb3193013a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).