Indiana Senate Bill 559 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: Passed on May 7 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-07 - Public Law 238
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Various criminal law matters. Adds unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon to the definition of "crimes of violence". Establishes new caps for consecutive sentences that result from a single episode of criminal conduct. Defines "emergency medical services provider". Provides that a person is a habitual offender if the state proves the person has been convicted of three prior unrelated felonies of any level. Allows the state to seek to have a person who allegedly committed a felony or misdemeanor, other than certain offenses, sentenced to an additional fixed term of imprisonment of between five and 20

Various criminal law matters. Adds unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon to the definition of "crimes of violence". Establishes new caps for consecutive sentences that result from a single episode of criminal conduct. Defines "emergency medical services provider". Provides that a person is a habitual offender if the state proves the person has been convicted of three prior unrelated felonies of any level. Allows the state to seek to have a person who allegedly committed a felony or misdemeanor, other than certain offenses, sentenced to an additional fixed term of imprisonment of between five and 20

Sen. Michael Young [R]	Sen. Brent Waltz [R]	Sen. Patricia Miller [R]	Sen. Scott Schneider [R]
Sen. Brent Steele [R]	Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Michael Crider [R]	Rep. David Frizzell [R]
Rep. Edward DeLaney [D]	Rep. Richard Hamm [R]

2015-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House Amendments (Y: 42 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-13 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-04-01 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 42 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2015-01-27 - Senate - Senate Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law - Committee Vote (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-07	Senate	Public Law 238
2015-05-07	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-05-01	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-04-29	Senate	Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 570: yeas 42, nays 7
2015-04-29	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2015-04-29	Senate	Dissent withdrawn
2015-04-16	House	House Advisors appointed: Steuerwald, Frizzell, Pierce and Dvorak
2015-04-16	House	House Conferees appointed: Washburne and DeLaney
2015-04-15	Senate	Senate Advisors appointed: Waltz, Tallian, Schneider and Miller Patricia
2015-04-15	Senate	Senate Conferees appointed: Young R Michael and Taylor
2015-04-15	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2015-04-15	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2015-04-14	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2015-04-13	House	Representative Hamm added as cosponsor
2015-04-13	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 402: yeas 96, nays 0
2015-04-09	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-04-07	House	Representative DeLaney added as cosponsor
2015-04-02	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-03-05	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
2015-02-16	Senate	Referred to the House
2015-02-05	Senate	Senator Crider added as coauthor
2015-02-05	Senate	Representative Frizzell added as sponsor
2015-02-05	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 42, nays 6
2015-02-03	Senate	Amendment #4 (Taylor) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-03	Senate	Amendment #1 (Glick) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-03	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2015-02-02	Senate	Senator Merritt added as coauthor
2015-01-29	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2015-01-27	Senate	Senator Steele added as coauthor
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Schneider added as coauthor
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Miller, Pat added as third author
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Waltz added as second author
2015-01-20	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law
2015-01-20	Senate	Authored by Senator Young R Michael

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/559/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/a/7/1/4a717140/SB0559.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/d/d/f/bddfca30/SB0559.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/8/2/1/68216246/SB0559.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/a/0/6/ea06d3c7/SB0559.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/7/0/f/f70fdee0/SB0559.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/4/1/e/141e3bcd/SB0559.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/5/9/e/059e8121/SB0559.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/2/6/c/726c548d/SB0559.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/3/b/d/63bd43e6/SB0559.05.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/f/f/9/fff9f24b/SB0559.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/b/3/3/cb33fb6a/SB0559.99.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/a/6/e/ba6e8543/SB0559.03.ENGS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/9/7/d/b97d1334/SB0559.402.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/7/0/9/a709dcff/SB0559.570.pdf