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type: "Bill"
title: "Various criminal law matters."
description: "Amends the definition of \"emergency medical services provider\" for the offense of battery to include a staff member in the emergency department of a hospital. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed on a public safety official does not apply if the person who commits the offense is detained or committed under the involuntary commitment statute. Provides that the employee of a court or law enforcement agency who warns the subject of a warrant of the existence of the warrant with the intent to interfere with the execution of the warrant commits obstruction of justice. Adds \"fondling\" to the crime of sexual misconduct with a service provider."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1021"
citation: "Indiana HB 1021 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Sex Crimes", "HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES", "PUBLIC SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jerry Torr", "Lonnie Randolph", "Scott Baldwin", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae58e79e-2a9e-4aec-9b60-002ff8aa5b98"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1021"
source_hash: "3f9ef3e1a881adaeb91ed862d692ba78740c62a3d7a48b416644eaa2e9e73252"
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 1021 (2023) — Various criminal law matters.
Amends the definition of "emergency medical services provider" for the offense of battery to include a staff member in the emergency department of a hospital. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed on a public safety official does not apply if the person who commits the offense is detained or committed under the involuntary commitment statute. Provides that the employee of a court or law enforcement agency who warns the subject of a warrant of the existence of the warrant with the intent to interfere with the execution of the warrant commits obstruction of justice. Adds "fondling" to the crime of sexual misconduct with a service provider.
## 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/2023/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1021/versions/HB1021.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1021 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — **470** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Representative Torr
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Holdman, Baldwin, Randolph Lonnie M
- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 114: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 383: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-14** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-17** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-17** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-18** House conferees appointed: Torr and Campbell
- **2023-04-18** House advisors appointed: Goodrich, Teshka and Miller K
- **2023-04-24** Senate conferees appointed: Rogers and Randolph Lonnie M
- **2023-04-24** Senate advisors appointed: Holdman and Pol
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-26** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 523: yeas 88, nays 0
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 506: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 209 `became-law`
- **2023-05-04** 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/ae58e79e-2a9e-4aec-9b60-002ff8aa5b98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).