Indiana Senate Bill 227 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on March 26 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-26 - Signed by the Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Provides that a person is immune from arrest or prosecution for certain alcohol offenses if the arrest or prosecution is due to the person: (1) reporting a medical emergency; (2) being the victim of a sex offense; or (3) witnessing and reporting what the person believes to be a crime. (Current law provides immunity from arrest or prosecution only if the person reports a medical emergency that is due to alcohol consumption.) Establishes a mitigating circumstance for the sentencing of a person convicted of a controlled substance offense if the person's arrest or prosecution was facilitated in part because the person requested emergency medical assistance for an individual in need of medical assistance due to the use of alcohol or a controlled substance. Allows a court to defer entering a judgment of conviction for an individual arrested for an alcohol offense if the individual was arrested after a report that the person needed medical assistance due to the use of alcohol if certain conditions are met. Allows an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical responder, an emergency medical technician, a firefighter or volunteer firefighter, a law enforcement officer, or a paramedic to administer an overdose intervention drug to a person suffering from an overdose. Allows certain health care providers to prescribe, and a pharmacist to dispense, an overdose intervention drug for an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical responder, an emergency medical technician, a fire department or volunteer fire department, a law enforcement agency, or a paramedic. Requires the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana to study and evaluate: (1) crimes of sexual violence against children; and (2) the impact of social

Alcohol and medical emergencies; crime studies.

Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Randall Head [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Randall Frye [R]
Rep. Christina Hale [D]	Rep. Eric Turner [R]	Rep. Linda Lawson [D]

2014-03-06 - Senate - Senate - Motion to Concur in House Amendments (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - House - House Floor - (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2014-02-12 - House - House Committee on Courts and Criminal Code - Roll Call 022703 (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2014-01-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2014-01-22 - Senate - Senate Committee on Judiciary - Roll Call 022701 (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-26	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2014-03-26	Senate	Public Law 156
2014-03-20	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2014-03-18	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2014-03-14	House	Signed by the Speaker
2014-03-06	Senate	Motion to Concur in House Amendments: prevailed; Roll Call 370: yeas 40 and nays 0
2014-02-26	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2014-02-26	House	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 294: yeas 96 and nays 0
2014-02-26	House	Representative Lawson added as cosponsor.
2014-02-18	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed.
2014-02-18	House	SB 227 Amendment #2 (Bartlett), prevailed.
2014-02-18	House	SB 227 Amendment #1 (McMillin), prevailed.
2014-02-17	House	Representative Turner added as cosponsor.
2014-02-13	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-02-04	House	First Reading: Referred to Courts and Criminal Code
2014-01-28	Senate	Representative Hale added as cosponsor.
2014-01-28	Senate	Representative Frye added as cosponsor.
2014-01-28	Senate	Representative McMillin added as sponsor.
2014-01-28	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-01-28	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 69: yeas 49 and nays 0
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Head added as second author.
2014-01-27	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor.
2014-01-27	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2014-01-27	Senate	SB 227 Amendment #1 (Merritt), prevailed.
2014-01-23	Senate	Committee report: do pass amend, adopted.
2014-01-09	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Judiciary
2014-01-09	Senate	Authored by Senator Merritt.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/227/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/0/e/f/00efc8cd/SB0227.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/5/a/a/15aa4057/SB0227.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/d/b/8/bdb85175/SB0227.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/5/3/2/3532b57e/SB0227.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/5/8/9/d589aeea/SB0227.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/7/4/e/074ed6da/SB0227.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/d/9/5/3d953688/SB0227.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/9/8/1/d98124c7/SB0227.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/6/f/4/b6f4bb06/SB0227.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/c/0/8/1c08887f/SB0227.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/c/9/0/1c9064a0/SB0227.06.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/d/6/1/cd6100cd/SB0227.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/7/a/0/e7a0d0a8/SB0227.03.ENGS.69.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/a/6/f/ba6f3186/SB0227.03.ENGS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/e/5/7/ee5778a0/SB0227.05.ENGH.294.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/0/5/a/205ae4da/SB0227.05.ENGH.370.pdf