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type title description jurisdiction legislature session identifier citation classification subjects status primary_sponsors version_count action_count vote_count first_action last_action source source_identifier source_url source_hash vintage source_snapshot retrieved_at confidence tags
Bill Signal jamming. Provides that a signal jammer may be seized. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, offers for sale, imports, markets, sells, possesses, uses, or operates a signal jammer commits unlawful use of a signal jammer, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the offense is a Level 5 felony if a signal jammer is used to disrupt a component of a critical infrastructure facility or the communications of a public safety agency. Provides, for purposes of criminal statutes regarding offenses involving critical infrastructure, that a communications services facility includes wires and equipment used to provide communications service to a customer. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2025 SB 26 Indiana SB 26 (2025)
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CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses
CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence
CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Public Health
Order
and Decency
PROPERTY; Generally
TECHNOLOGY; Communication (Including Internet
Phone Lines
Print Media
Radio
and Television)
enacted
Aaron Freeman
Cindy Ledbetter
Gary Byrne
James Tomes
4 37 4 2025-01-08 2025-05-06 openstates ocd-bill/93c20a5c-561b-4bf4-94dd-e3dc5f102025 https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0026 ca5663d4a3b8ae987dad7c528d547e54d009fbb0cfc4e9750545221cb507cb35 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana SB 26 (2025) — Signal jamming.

Provides that a signal jammer may be seized. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally manufactures, offers for sale, imports, markets, sells, possesses, uses, or operates a signal jammer commits unlawful use of a signal jammer, a Level 6 felony. Provides that the offense is a Level 5 felony if a signal jammer is used to disrupt a component of a critical infrastructure facility or the communications of a public safety agency. Provides, for purposes of criminal statutes regarding offenses involving critical infrastructure, that a communications services facility includes wires and equipment used to provide communications service to a customer.

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 26 - Ledbetter — 838 (pass) · lower
  • SB 26 - Ledbetter - 3rd Reading — 886 (pass) · lower
  • SB 26 - Tomes — 481 (pass) · upper
  • SB 26 - Tomes - 3rd Reading — 490 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
  • Cindy Ledbetter — primary (person)
  • Gary Byrne — primary (person)
  • James Tomes — primary (person)
  • Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
  • James Buck — coauthor (person)
  • Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
  • Lorissa Sweet — cosponsor (person)
  • Matt Pierce — cosponsor (person)
  • Shane Lindauer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-08 Authored by Senator Tomes
  • 2025-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-01-13 Senator Byrne added as third author
  • 2025-01-13 Senator Freeman added as second author
  • 2025-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-01-21 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-01-21 Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-21 Senator Doriot added as coauthor
  • 2025-01-21 Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 14: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-01-23 Senator Buck added as coauthor
  • 2025-01-23 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
  • 2025-01-23 House sponsor: Representative Ledbetter
  • 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
  • 2025-03-27 Representatives Sweet and Lindauer added as cosponsors
  • 2025-03-31 Representative Pierce M added as cosponsor
  • 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-04-07 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-04-09 Motion to dissent filed filing
  • 2025-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 389: yeas 88, nays 6 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-04-09 Motion to dissent filed filing
  • 2025-04-09 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
  • 2025-04-10 Senate advisors appointed: Pol, Freeman and Byrne
  • 2025-04-10 Senate conferees appointed: Tomes and Taylor G
  • 2025-04-10 Senate dissented from House amendments
  • 2025-04-14 House advisors appointed: Sweet, Lindauer and McNamara
  • 2025-04-14 House conferees appointed: Ledbetter and Pierce M
  • 2025-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2025-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 505: yeas 83, nays 8
  • 2025-04-21 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
  • 2025-04-22 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 481: yeas 48, nays 1
  • 2025-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2025-04-23 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2025-04-29 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-06 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-06 Public Law 183 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93c20a5c-561b-4bf4-94dd-e3dc5f102025. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).