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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Throwing stars."
description: "Makes throwing stars legal in Indiana except for on school property."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "Indiana SB 77 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Weapons", "WEAPONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Linda Rogers", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da6c19ee-136a-4fe0-ba63-7e7767bde672"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/77"
source_hash: "fc0e03d5b3449cbda9e1db163913883702fea368e2e3b2906761e4821249be0a"
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 SB 77 (2023) — Throwing stars.
Makes throwing stars legal in Indiana except for on school property.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0077/versions/SB0077.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 77 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **906** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Craig Haggard — cosponsor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senators Brown L and Rogers
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 43: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative DeVon
- **2023-01-31** Cosponsors: Representatives Bartels and King J
- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-20** Representative Haggard C added as cosponsor
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 308: yeas 90, nays 6 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 313: yeas 46, nays 2
- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 22 `became-law`
- **2023-04-20** 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/da6c19ee-136a-4fe0-ba63-7e7767bde672`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).