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type: "Bill"
title: "Trespass."
description: "Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or their agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or the other person's agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 219"
citation: "Indiana SB 219 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Creation of New Offenses", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Property", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Brett Clark", "Craig Haggard", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bd1f60e-220c-4fa4-bf39-c4fb3193013a"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0219"
source_hash: "4959a63e1b45a62340a446e44e5d39befb11057817c84dcb97100f9fdc973614"
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 219 (2025) — Trespass.
Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or their agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that a person who, not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally refuses to leave the real property of another person after having been asked to leave by the other person, that person's agent, or a law enforcement officer acting on behalf of the other person or the other person's agent, commits criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0219/SB0219.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0219/SB0219.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0219/SB0219.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0219/SB0219.04.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 219 - Clark - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 219 - Haggard - 3rd Reading — **900** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Brett Clark — primary (person)
- Craig Haggard — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Chris Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-08** Authored by Senator Clark
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Senator Freeman added as second author
- **2025-01-21** Senator Baldwin added as third author
- **2025-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Senators Koch, Bohacek, Glick added as coauthors
- **2025-01-30** Amendment #1 (Clark) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** Senator Alting added as coauthor
- **2025-02-03** House sponsor: Representative Haggard
- **2025-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 55: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-02-18** Representatives Steuerwald, Jeter, Pierce K added as cosponsors
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 288: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Public Law 23 `became-law`
- **2025-04-03** 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/5bd1f60e-220c-4fa4-bf39-c4fb3193013a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).