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type: "Bill"
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title: "Eyewitness identification procedures."
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description: "Establishes a procedure to be used by a law enforcement agency in conducting a lineup or in person witness identification."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 141"
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citation: "Indiana SB 141 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["COURTS; Witnesses", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Academy and Training", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "TECHNOLOGY; Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gregory Steuerwald", "Liz Brown", "Mike Bohacek", "Susan Glick"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 34
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2025-01-08"
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last_action: "2025-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43e346b-70e1-45a7-80ac-c7e2f8a76e0b"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0141"
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source_hash: "db58ecf8850036ebfb814a3e6ecf84f788d5eafd3a8b54669657c7e0ffb52836"
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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 SB 141 (2025) — Eyewitness identification procedures.
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Establishes a procedure to be used by a law enforcement agency in conducting a lineup or in person witness identification.
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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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.03.ENGS.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.05.ENRH.pdf)
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3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.01.INTR.pdf)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0141/SB0141.04.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 141 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 141 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 141 - Brown L — **35–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
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- Liz Brown — primary (person)
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- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
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- Susan Glick — primary (person)
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- Brett Clark — coauthor (person)
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- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Mitch Gore — cosponsor (person)
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- Rodney Pol — coauthor (person)
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- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Brown L
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- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-16** Senator Glick added as second author
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- **2025-01-28** Senator Pol added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13** Senators Koch and Clark added as coauthors
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- **2025-02-13** Senator Bohacek added as third author
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- **2025-02-19** Amendment #4 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-19** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-19** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Steuerwald
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- **2025-02-20** Cosponsor: Representative McNamara
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- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 176: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-24** Representative Gore added as cosponsor
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- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 319: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-03-31** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2025-04-07** Concurrence withdrawn `withdrawal`
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- **2025-04-08** Senate dissented from House amendments
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- **2025-04-08** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
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- **2025-04-10** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Gore
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- **2025-04-10** Dissent rescinded
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- **2025-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
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- **2025-04-10** House advisors appointed: McNamara, Meltzer and Pierce M
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- **2025-04-16** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 452: yeas 35, nays 1
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- **2025-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-05-01** Public Law 127 `became-law`
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- **2025-05-01** 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/c43e346b-70e1-45a7-80ac-c7e2f8a76e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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