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type: "Bill"
title: "Exoneration payments."
description: "Provides that a person applying to the Indiana criminal justice institute seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration must prove that he or she is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence. Specifies that payments may be suspended while a defendant is incarcerated for a different offense."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1283"
citation: "Indiana HB 1283 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMINAL JUSTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Gregory Steuerwald", "Michael Young", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dd59564-8e87-4605-ac38-417dc1cd0a76"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1283"
source_hash: "ba75d8b460502a050df7734a0132f428a3cc63e39c3bbe93cbb3727c2a22af88"
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 HB 1283 (2022) — Exoneration payments.
Provides that a person applying to the Indiana criminal justice institute seeking compensation for wrongful incarceration must prove that he or she is actually innocent by a preponderance of the evidence. Specifies that payments may be suspended while a defendant is incarcerated for a different offense.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1283/versions/HB1283.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1283 - Steuerwald - 3rd Reading — **890** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Gregory Steuerwald — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Coauthored by Representatives Thompson, Smaltz, Porter
- **2022-01-10** Authored by Representative Steuerwald
- **2022-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** Senate sponsors: Senators Young M, Mishler, Freeman
- **2022-01-25** Cosponsor: Senator Taylor G
- **2022-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 83: yeas 89, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-26** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-02** First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Amendment #1 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 205: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-17** Motion to dissent filed
- **2022-02-17** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-18** House conferees appointed: Steuerwald and Porter
- **2022-02-18** House advisors appointed: Thompson, Smaltz, Hatcher and Shackleford
- **2022-02-22** Senate conferees appointed: Young M and Taylor G
- **2022-02-22** Senate advisors appointed: Mishler and Pol
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2022-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2022-03-08** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 352: yeas 36, nays 14
- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 366: yeas 94, nays 1
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Public Law 146
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-15** 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/4dd59564-8e87-4605-ac38-417dc1cd0a76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).