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type: "Bill"
title: "Regulation of drones near correctional facilities."
description: "Provides that the crime of trafficking with an inmate includes the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) to deliver contraband, and that the crime of public safety remote aerial interference includes operation of a drone to intentionally obstruct or interfere with the duties of a correctional officer, including a county jail officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 182"
citation: "Indiana SB 182 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS; Adult Inmates and Facilities", "CORRECTIONS; Juvenile Inmates and Facilities", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", "TRANSPORTATION; Aircraft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Eric Koch", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Mike Bohacek"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4b09003-9fa7-47a0-af74-c97c7c3546d8"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0182"
source_hash: "59ef8485868807515f6812256e31c4dc64ff531b1bd8a6c1f2f4e25fbf7d8a68"
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 182 (2024) — Regulation of drones near correctional facilities.
Provides that the crime of trafficking with an inmate includes the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) to deliver contraband, and that the crime of public safety remote aerial interference includes operation of a drone to intentionally obstruct or interfere with the duties of a correctional officer, including a county jail officer.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0182/SB0182.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0182/SB0182.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0182/SB0182.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0182/SB0182.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 182 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- SB 182 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **920** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Messmer — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Scott Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — cosponsor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2024-01-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** Senator Bohacek added as third author
- **2024-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** Senator Glick added as coauthor
- **2024-01-18** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2024-01-18** Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 17: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-22** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
- **2024-01-22** Senators Crider and Rogers added as coauthors
- **2024-01-22** Senator Gaskill added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senator Messmer added as coauthor
- **2024-01-22** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2024-01-23** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Representative Bartels added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 174: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 22 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** 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/e4b09003-9fa7-47a0-af74-c97c7c3546d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).