republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-259.md

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Bill	Law enforcement procedures.	Requires an affidavit for probable cause, or a person testifying at a probable cause hearing, to make certain disclosures relating to a possible conflict of interest. Specifies that a probable cause affidavit must be redacted under certain circumstances. Prohibits a law enforcement officer from directing, encouraging, or knowingly permitting a person who is not a law enforcement officer to question a person in custody under certain circumstances.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 259	Indiana SB 259 (2025)	bill	CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Contracts and Legal Documents COURTS; Judges COURTS; Witnesses CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Rules of Trial Procedure LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally	enacted	Aaron Freeman Garrett Bascom Michael Young Ron Alting	4	24	3	2025-01-13	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7476e31d-afd6-4e74-b0c9-fa48462aa408	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0259	f3ee46a8aaac4deabe66dff7a2d08e6ea9fe3e69ffd048d3aade2f38f47b1abb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 259 (2025) — Law enforcement procedures.

Requires an affidavit for probable cause, or a person testifying at a probable cause hearing, to make certain disclosures relating to a possible conflict of interest. Specifies that a probable cause affidavit must be redacted under certain circumstances. Prohibits a law enforcement officer from directing, encouraging, or knowingly permitting a person who is not a law enforcement officer to question a person in custody under certain circumstances.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 259 - Alting — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 259 - Bascom - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 259 - Alting - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Garrett Bascom — primary (person)
• Michael Young — primary (person)
• Ron Alting — primary (person)
• Andrew Ireland — cosponsor (person)
• Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senators Alting and Freeman
• 2025-02-04 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-06 Senator Young M added as third author
• 2025-02-06 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-10 House sponsor: Representative Bascom
• 2025-02-10 Cosponsor: Representative Klinker
• 2025-02-10 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 87: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-11 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Representative Ireland added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-07 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Amendment #1 (Ireland) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-04-08 Representative Gore added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 399: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-10 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-16 Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 39, 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 131 became-law
• 2025-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7476e31d-afd6-4e74-b0c9-fa48462aa408. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).