Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 159: Procedures for obtaining a warrant.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 159 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Procedures for obtaining a warrant. Primary sponsor: Garrett Bascom (Republican), Mike Bohacek (Republican), Aaron Freeman (Republican). It lists 4 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 30, 2025): Signed by the Governor.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Specifies that a request for a warrant made orally by telephone, radio, or similar electronic means must be recorded and typed or transcribed. (Under current law, the judge is required to record the request, and the court reporter to type or transcribe it.) 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.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 5
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrett Bascom | Primary sponsor | Republican | House | 68 |
| Mike Bohacek | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 8 |
| Aaron Freeman | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 32 |
| Sue Glick | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 13 |
| Eric Koch | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 44 |
| Rodney Pol | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 4 |
| Lonnie Randolph | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 2 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Signed by the Governor
- Public Law 113
- Signed by the President of the Senate
- Signed by the Speaker
- Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 455: yeas 38, nays 0
- Motion to concur filed
- Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 283: yeas 90, nays 0
- Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
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