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type: "Bill"
title: "Limitation on right to bail."
description: "Provides that an offense other than murder or treason is not bailable if: (1) the proof is evident or the presumption strong; and (2) the state proves by clear and convincing evidence that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any other person or the community."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SJR 1"
citation: "Indiana SJR 1 (2023)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["BAIL AND BAIL BONDSMEN", "CONSTITUTION OF INDIANA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Chris Jeter", "Eric Koch", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36f6c94a-c620-43be-bbca-be9659d5b047"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/resolutions/senate/joint/1"
source_hash: "2f2b0592fd9af1fe24a1be92497b9b5533b7ab66296db82525bcf364baa9834c"
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 SJR 1 (2023) — Limitation on right to bail.
Provides that an offense other than murder or treason is not bailable if: (1) the proof is evident or the presumption strong; and (2) the state proves by clear and convincing evidence that no release conditions will reasonably protect the safety of any other person or the community.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Resolution (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SJ0001/versions/SJ0001.04.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Resolution (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SJ0001/versions/SJ0001.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Resolution (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SJ0001/versions/SJ0001.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Resolution (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SJ0001/versions/SJ0001.03.COMH)
5. **Senate Resolution (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SJ0001/versions/SJ0001.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SJR 1 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **3415** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Jerry Torr — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Young — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Senator Bray added as second author
- **2023-01-17** Senator Freeman added as third author
- **2023-01-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; Roll Call 13: yeas 11, nays 39 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-24** Amendment #2 (Pol) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
- **2023-01-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 27: yeas 34, nays 15 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26** House sponsor: Representative Jeter
- **2023-01-26** Cosponsors: Representatives Steuerwald and McNamara
- **2023-01-30** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-02** Representative Torr added as cosponsor
- **2023-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Amendment #3 (Jeter) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Amendment #2 (Hatfield) motion withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
- **2023-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 368: yeas 70, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 386: yeas 38, nays 9
- **2023-04-13** Senator Young M added as coauthor
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Public Law 255 `became-law`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36f6c94a-c620-43be-bbca-be9659d5b047`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).