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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Encroachment on an investigation."
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description: "Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally approaches within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after the law enforcement officer has ordered the person to stop commits a Class C misdemeanor. Specifies that \"emergency incident area\" may include an area 25 feet in all directions from the perimeter of an emergency incident area. (Under current law, the area is 150 feet)."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 1186"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1186 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES generally", "LAW ENFORCEMENT generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Wendy McNamara"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-10"
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last_action: "2023-04-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa6da12-72c0-40f1-84c5-0e90de1a6e43"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1186"
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source_hash: "d1f29df4426735893a9c2499bff477b04a956aeaccbd35443d63617a619d0d50"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1186 (2023) — Encroachment on an investigation.
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Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally approaches within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after the law enforcement officer has ordered the person to stop commits a Class C misdemeanor. Specifies that "emergency incident area" may include an area 25 feet in all directions from the perimeter of an emergency incident area. (Under current law, the area is 150 feet).
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.04.ENGS)
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2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.05.ENRS)
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3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.02.COMH)
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4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.03.COMS)
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5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1186/versions/HB1186.01.INTR)
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## Votes
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- HB 1186 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — **75–20** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
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- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
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- Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
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- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
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- Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark Messmer — cosponsor (person)
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- Michael Karickhoff — coauthor (person)
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- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Karickhoff and Pressel
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- **2023-01-10** Authored by Representative McNamara
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- **2023-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-12** Representative Bartels added as coauthor
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- **2023-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 124: yeas 75, nays 20 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-02-14** Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman and Sandlin
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- **2023-02-15** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2023-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-07** Senator Messmer added as cosponsor
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- **2023-03-13** Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
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- **2023-03-20** Amendment #7 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2023-03-20** Amendment #1 (Young M) failed; Roll Call 226: yeas 16, nays 33 `amendment-failure, failure`
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- **2023-03-20** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 240: yeas 32, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-03-22** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
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- **2023-03-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2023-03-28** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 322: yeas 68, nays 26
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- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2023-04-20** Public Law 67 `became-law`
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- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fa6da12-72c0-40f1-84c5-0e90de1a6e43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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