Indiana Senate Bill 159

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - Senators Pol, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Procedures for obtaining a warrant. Specifies that a judge or, at the direction of the judge, a prosecuting attorney, shall record a request for a warrant made orally by telephone, radio, or similar electronic means. (Under current law, the judge is required to record the request.) Permits certain warrant requests to be: (1) made electronically (where current law only allows this by radio or telephone); and (2) recorded electronically (where current law only permits the use of audio tape). Requires the prosecuting attorney and a law enforcement agency to maintain all requests for warrants, and to provide them to a defendant in discovery.

Procedures for obtaining a warrant.

Sen. Aaron Freeman [R]	Sen. Mike Bohacek [R]	Sen. Rodney Pol [D]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]
Sen. Susan Glick [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-21	Senate	Senators Pol, Koch, Glick added as coauthors
2025-01-21	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2025-01-21	Senate	Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
2025-01-16	Senate	Senator Bohacek added as second author
2025-01-14	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2025-01-08	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
2025-01-08	Senate	Authored by Senator Freeman

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/159/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/SB0159.01.INTR.pdf
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/SB0159.02.COMS.pdf
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/SB0159.03.ENGS.pdf
Amendment	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/amendments/SB0159.02.COMS.AMS001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/fiscal-notes/SB0159.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/votesheets/SB0159.01.INTR.03.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/committee-reports/SB0159.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/fiscal-notes/SB0159.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0159/fiscal-notes/SB0159.03.ENGS.FN001.pdf