Indiana Senate Bill 179 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 27 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
Pending: House Courts and Criminal Code Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Home detention. Provides that a court may not order a person convicted of a: (1) Level 1 felony; or (2) crime subject to certain enhancements; to a community corrections program. Allows a court to place a person in a community corrections program as an alternative to commitment to the county jail or department of correction. Repeals a requirement that a court suspend the sentence for a person placed in a community corrections program. Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.) Provides that the violation of a home detention placement term constitutes the crime of escape under certain circumstances. Makes technical changes.

Home detention.

Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. Aaron Freeman [R]	Sen. Scott Baldwin [R]	Rep. Jennifer Meltzer [R]
Rep. Wendy McNamara [R]	Rep. Gregory Steuerwald [R]

2023-01-26 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-07	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
2023-01-27	Senate	Referred to the House
2023-01-26	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives McNamara and Steuerwald
2023-01-26	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Meltzer
2023-01-26	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 28: yeas 48, nays 0
2023-01-24	Senate	Senator Baldwin added as third author
2023-01-24	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2023-01-24	Senate	Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote
2023-01-23	Senate	Senator Freeman added as second author
2023-01-19	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2023-01-09	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
2023-01-09	Senate	Authored by Senator Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/179/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/179/#1.INTR
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/179/#2.COMS
Text	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/179/#3.ENGS
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/179/#S28