Indiana 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted 4 R cosponsors

SB 231 — Various corrections matters.

Last action — Signed by the Governor

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed House
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Mike Braun (Republican) on May 06, 2025.

Odds of enactment

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Prognosis

Advancing 58% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 4 sponsors

    3 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (4 R).

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Summary

Eliminates requirements that the department of correction: (1) maintain farm programs for offenders committed to the department; and (2) prepare a report calculating the savings realized as a result of sentencing changes. Replaces a reference to a rule repealed by the department of correction with a requirement that the custody and treatment of juveniles meet the standards and licensing requirements adopted in the administrative rules of the department.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor

  2. Public Law 193

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate

  4. Signed by the Speaker

  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  6. Representative Gore removed as conferee

  7. Representative Lawson added as conferee

  8. CCR # 1 filed in the Senate

  9. Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 531: yeas 48, nays 2

  10. Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 571: yeas 77, nays 2

  11. CCR # 1 filed in the House

  12. Senate conferees appointed: Bohacek and Pol

  13. Senate advisors appointed: Carrasco and Taylor G

  14. House conferees appointed: Bartels and Gore

  15. House advisors appointed: Meltzer, McNamara and Bauer

  16. Motion to dissent filed

  17. Senate dissented from House amendments

  18. Returned to the Senate with amendments

  19. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 90, nays 0

  20. Amendment #1 (Summers) prevailed; Roll Call 267: yeas 96, nays 0

  21. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  22. Committee report: do pass, adopted

  23. First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code

  24. Referred to the House

  25. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 48, nays 1

  26. House sponsor: Representative Bartels

  27. Cosponsor: Representative Sweet

  28. Amendment #2 (Bohacek) prevailed; voice vote

  29. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  30. Senator Carrasco added as second author

  31. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  32. First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law

  33. Authored by Senator Bohacek

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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3 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 146 not signed on

Sponsors (3)

Co-sponsors (1)

Not signed on (146)

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 231 do?
Eliminates requirements that the department of correction: (1) maintain farm programs for offenders committed to the department; and (2) prepare a report calculating the savings realized as a result of sentencing changes. Replaces a reference to a rule repealed by the department of correction with a requirement that the custody and treatment of juveniles meet the standards and licensing requirements adopted in the administrative rules of the department.
Who sponsors SB 231?
SB 231 is sponsored by Lorissa Sweet (Republican), Steve Bartels (Republican), Cyndi Carrasco (Republican), and Mike Bohacek (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 231?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2025. Enacted.
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