Indiana Senate Bill 28 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Engrossed on January 16 2019 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-03-21 - Committee report: do pass, adopted
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Crimes involving synthetic drugs. Specifies that an "enhancing circumstance", for purposes of criminal law, includes a prior conviction for dealing or manufacturing a substance represented to be a controlled substance. Makes certain offenses involving synthetic drugs an enhancing circumstance. Removes certain misdemeanor prosecutions concerning synthetic drugs and synthetic lookalike drugs from eligibility for conditional discharge. Makes the penalty for dealing or manufacturing a substance represented to be a controlled substance a felony of the same level as dealing or manufacturing the controlled substance that the substance is imitating.

Crimes involving synthetic drugs. Specifies that an "enhancing circumstance", for purposes of criminal law, includes a prior conviction for dealing or manufacturing a substance represented to be a controlled substance. Makes certain offenses involving synthetic drugs an enhancing circumstance. Removes certain misdemeanor prosecutions concerning synthetic drugs and synthetic lookalike drugs from eligibility for conditional discharge. Makes the penalty for dealing or manufacturing a substance represented to be a controlled substance a felony of the same level as dealing or manufacturing the controlled substance that the substance is imitating.

Sen. Mike Bohacek [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. Michael Young [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. James Merritt [R]	Rep. Sharon Negele [R]	Rep. Jim Pressel [R]

2019-03-20 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-15 - Senate - Third reading (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-08 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-21	House	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2019-02-26	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
2019-01-16	Senate	Referred to the House
2019-01-15	Senate	Senator Merritt added as coauthor
2019-01-15	Senate	Senator Young M added as third author
2019-01-15	Senate	Senator Koch added as second author
2019-01-15	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Pressel
2019-01-15	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Negele
2019-01-15	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 11: yeas 50, nays 0
2019-01-14	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2019-01-10	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2019-01-10	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2019-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
2019-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Bohacek

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/28/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/3/a/e/f3aec3be/SB0028.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/f/4/3/ff43e5ee/SB0028.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/a/f/f/faff5886/SB0028.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/e/6/c/9e6c4bf8/SB0028.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/8/6/b/386b059c/SB0028.03.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/2/c/522cde73/SB0028.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/e/2/e/be2ee8f2/SB0028.11.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/c/7/7/cc77ffca/SB0028.02.COMS.03.pdf