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type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1359"
citation: "Indiana HB 1359 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Controlled Substances", "DEATH", "DRUGS AND MEDICINES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Erin Houchin", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58a49d45-5060-41e9-8207-f375262868bd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1359"
source_hash: "11e142e0a44ae21e726a056071648369b37ca22ba253300ccfc26da2ff1dae50"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana HB 1359 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning criminal law and procedure.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.06.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.02.comh)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.05.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.03.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1359/versions/hb1359.01.intr)
## Votes
- HB 1359 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **8512** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1359 - Young M - 3rd Reading — **419** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- James Merritt — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
- Kevin Mahan — coauthor (person)
- Scott Pelath — coauthor (person)
- Thomas Washburne — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Representatives Washburne, Mahan, Pelath added as coauthors
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 66: yeas 85, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-29** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Houchin and Freeman
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 262: yeas 41, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Senator Merritt added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Senators Zakas and Holdman added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-22** Public Law 198
- **2018-03-22** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58a49d45-5060-41e9-8207-f375262868bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).