republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-324.md

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Bill	Criminal procedures.	Increases the penalty levels of crimes related to fentanyl. Provides that a court shall consider requiring certain persons charged with a crime of domestic violence to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail. Requires that a bail hearing for a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee be held in open court and provides that before releasing a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee on bail the court must review the probable cause affidavit or arrest warrant and impose money bail payable by surety bond or cash deposit. Provides that in accordance with IC 27-10-2-4.5(g)(2), a charitable bail organization may not pay money bail on behalf of a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee. Makes conforming changes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 324	Indiana SB 324 (2025)	bill	BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; Charitable Organizations and Nonprofits CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children COURTS; Bail and Bail Bondsmen COURTS; Judges CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Illicit Drugs Substances and Alcohol Offenses CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Persons CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Rules of Trial Procedure LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally	enacted	Aaron Freeman Chris Jeter Cyndi Carrasco Eric Koch	4	40	4	2025-01-13	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/45fcd140-d13e-4255-b61b-94c74e928bae	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0324	42a06825658d8e0eb7a9caee3a01a0e00569ba870f140ad59c7ac4fcb4ddd576	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 324 (2025) — Criminal procedures.

Increases the penalty levels of crimes related to fentanyl. Provides that a court shall consider requiring certain persons charged with a crime of domestic violence to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail. Requires that a bail hearing for a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee be held in open court and provides that before releasing a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee on bail the court must review the probable cause affidavit or arrest warrant and impose money bail payable by surety bond or cash deposit. Provides that in accordance with IC 27-10-2-4.5(g)(2), a charitable bail organization may not pay money bail on behalf of a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee. Makes conforming changes.

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 324 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 324 - Jeter — 89–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 324 - Freeman — 48–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 324 - Freeman - 3rd Reading — 46–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• Chris Jeter — primary (person)
• Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
• Eric Koch — primary (person)
• Daryl Schmitt — coauthor (person)
• Garrett Bascom — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Andrade — cosponsor (person)
• Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
• Wendy McNamara — 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 Senator Freeman
• 2025-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Senator Koch added as second author
• 2025-01-30 Senator Carrasco added as third author
• 2025-02-13 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-17 Amendment #3 (Qaddoura) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-17 Amendment #2 (Baldwin) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 153: yeas 46, nays 3 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-18 House sponsor: Representative Jeter
• 2025-02-19 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 Representative Andrade added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Representatives McNamara, Bascom, Andrade added as cosponsors
• 2025-04-07 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Representative Andrade removed as cosponsor
• 2025-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 400: yeas 92, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-10 Senator Alexander added as coauthor
• 2025-04-10 Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
• 2025-04-14 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2025-04-14 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2025-04-14 Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Pol
• 2025-04-14 Senate advisors appointed: Taylor G, Koch and Carrasco
• 2025-04-15 Representative Bascom added as advisor
• 2025-04-15 House advisors appointed: McNamara, Steuerwald, Zimmerman and Pierce M
• 2025-04-15 House conferees appointed: Jeter and Andrade
• 2025-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2025-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2025-04-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-25 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-05-06 Public Law 197 became-law
• 2025-05-06 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-29 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-24 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 524: yeas 48, nays 1
• 2025-04-24 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 561: yeas 89, nays 0
• 2025-04-24 Senator Pol removed as conferee
• 2025-04-24 Senator Baldwin added as conferee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/45fcd140-d13e-4255-b61b-94c74e928bae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).