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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1122: Unlawful encroachment.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1122 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Unlawful encroachment. Primary sponsor: Scott Baldwin (Republican), Wendy McNamara (Republican). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 25, 2025): Public Law 4.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Authorizes a law enforcement officer to order a person to stop approaching the law enforcement officer if the officer reasonably believes that the person's presence within 25 feet of the officer will interfere with the performance of the officer's duties. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally approaches within 25 feet of a law enforcement officer after being ordered to stop approaching commits unlawful encroachment on a law enforcement officer, a Class C misdemeanor.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Scott BaldwinPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate20
Wendy McNamaraPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse76
Steve BartelsCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse74
Brett ClarkCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate24
Mike KarickhoffCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse30
Jim PresselCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse20
Linda RogersCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate11

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Public Law 4
  2. Signed by the Governor
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker
  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  6. Returned to the House without amendments
  7. Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
  8. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 225: yeas 39, nays 10
  9. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  10. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  11. First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
  12. Referred to the Senate

Showing 12 most recent of 20 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source