# Indiana SB 80: Code publication. Indiana SB 80, Code publication., is a First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025) Senate bill sponsored by Aaron Freeman (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-05-06 (Public Law 186); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB80-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Indiana SB 80 - State: Indiana - Session: First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025) - Title: Code publication. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-08 - Last action: 2025-05-06, Public Law 186 - Sponsor: Aaron Freeman (Republican) - Cosponsors: 3 - Subjects: judiciary, the house - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (284 yes, 1 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 36 ## Summary Makes Indiana Code publication amendments. Repeals and relocates specific Indiana Code definitions chapters for organization of the defined terms by alphabetical order and to provide for future expansion of the chapters. Makes conforming cross-reference updates. Makes technical amendments to remove tabulation designations from the certain criminal law and procedure sections for consistency with similar statutes and to streamline amendment of those sections. Resolves technical conflicts between various enrolled acts passed during the 2025 legislative session. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Abuse protections reach young facility residents: benefit, medium. Specified child-abuse protections now cover people ages 18 through 20 who live or previously lived in a state-licensed residential facility. The facility must be licensed by the Department of Child Services. Coverage applies when facility staff cause harm or threatened harm through battery or the s… - Broader protections against stalking and abuse: benefit, medium. Indiana’s domestic and family violence protections cover stalking and sex offenses even when the offender is not a family member. The definition also covers specified animal abuse used to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family or household member. This broadens the conduct cove… - Product injury rules include some bystanders: benefit, low. Indiana product liability law includes purchasers, users, consumers, and people controlling a product for the injured person as consumers. It also includes injured bystanders reasonably expected to be near the product during reasonably expected use. Buying or using the product is therefore not alwa… - Distillers gain event sales, less paperwork: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, artisan distillers may sell, donate, transport, and deliver liquor to qualified organizations for legally allowed events. Covered events include the charity auctions and events listed in the law. Distillers no longer must send annual copies of state and federal excise tax re… - Distillers gain more direct sales capacity: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying artisan distillers can sell and deliver more liquor directly to retailers or dealers. The annual cap rises from 1,000 to 2,000 gallons. The prior-year Indiana sales limit for eligibility rises from 9,000 to 10,000 gallons. Distillers must not distribute through an… - More trade show days for producers: benefit, low. Indiana brewers, farm wineries, and artisan distillers can attend trade shows or expositions for up to 75 days yearly. The prior cap was 45 days, and Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission approval remains required. For artisan distillers, the increase begins July 1, 2025. Distillers can participat… - Wine dealers lose three-case sales cap: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana wine dealers may sell more than three standard cases in a single transaction. Wine must still be sold in permissible containers. - Counties face polling security and layout rules: benefit, low. County boards must separate election-worker areas from voting equipment, designate challenge areas, and mark entrance-line boundaries. Specified voting systems require a railing. Beginning July 1, 2025, electronic poll books must meet security, check-in, ballot-tracking, training, audit, and data-h… - Hemp exclusions and marijuana definitions clarified: benefit, low. Qualifying hemp extract is excluded from marijuana, hashish, and hash oil definitions; qualifying smokable hemp is excluded from marijuana. Extract must be hemp-derived, contain no other controlled substances, and stay within 0.3% total delta-9-THC by weight, including precursors. Smokable hemp has… - Juvenile reports explain placements and risks: benefit, low. Reports prepared before juvenile court decisions must explain placement options, recommendations, consultations, and required dual-status assessments. Department reports must describe efforts to find adult relatives; probation reports must include validated risk-and-needs assessments and dual-statu… - Emergency care liability rules include volunteers: benefit, low. A separate civil-liability chapter includes licensed care, hospitalization, emergency services, and goods or services treating illness, disability, or injury. It also includes specified registered, certified, and trained unlicensed health professionals. Unlicensed professionals must complete applic… - School childcare programs gain student volunteers: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, students age 15 or older may volunteer as caregivers in their school corporation’s childcare program. An adult authorized to provide childcare must supervise them. Students may start before completing the usual caregiver requirements, but must finish those requirements withi… - Health plan buyers gain audit access: benefit, low. Eligible contract holders, plan sponsors, and state entities can request one audit per calendar year, at least six months apart. This covers pharmacy benefit managers, third-party administrators, managed care organizations, and prepaid health care delivery plans. Requested claims data must arrive w… - Closing agents face fewer reporting duties: benefit, low. Closing agents no longer must send transaction information and forms to the Department of Insurance after closing. They also no longer need a customer's signed verification of compliance. The law removes the $25 civil penalty and related examination and enforcement rules, including the penalty for… - Local tax allocation rules change: benefit, low. The law directs qualifying surplus assessed value to local taxing units in specified redevelopment, economic development, or urban renewal areas. This applies to allocation areas established after June 30, 2019. The trigger is assessed value expected to generate more than 200% of specified bond-pay… - Some overseas voters get federal-only ballots: cost, medium. Overseas voters who no longer reside in an Indiana precinct may receive absentee ballots only for federal offices. Their assigned precinct contains the voter registration office in the Indiana county where they lived before leaving the United States. - Stricter hiring limits for nurse aides: cost, medium. Beginning July 1, 2025, health care facilities and staffing contractors cannot knowingly employ applicants with certain recent convictions. The law bars applicants whose crime-of-violence conviction occurred less than 10 years before applying. This replaces the prior five-year rule for involuntary… - Court auctioneer sales face feasibility tests: cost, low. Courts may find an execution sale economically feasible with an auctioneer only after making two findings. An auctioneer must be reasonably likely to produce a valid, enforceable bid covering the judgment and necessary costs. The court must also find no such likelihood without an auctioneer. - Primary voters must show identification: cost, low. In-person primary voters must show qualifying identification before signing the poll list. An election-board member must challenge voters who cannot or decline to provide it. Those voters may sign the required affidavit and receive a provisional ballot. The requirement does not apply to residents v… - Product claims exclude gradual damage, services: cost, low. Product liability law covers bodily injury, death, loss of services and related rights, and sudden major property damage. It excludes gradually developing property damage and economic losses resulting from that damage. A product must be a good that is personal property when the seller transfers it.… - Property owners face fire service charges: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, volunteer fire departments may authorize agents to collect service charges from property owners they serve. Charges cannot exceed the state fire marshal’s recommended schedule. Departments must give required notice before starting or changing charges, and owners may refuse s… - Absentee application helpers face filing duties: cost, low. People helping with specified absentee-application information must give identifying and contact details and make statements under penalty of perjury. They must attest to legal compliance and no reason to doubt the applicant’s eligibility or proper completion and signature. Recipients must record r… - Child abuse definition excludes sex-based references: cost, low. The law excludes raising or referring to a child consistently with the child’s biological sex from the stated child-abuse definition. That conduct alone does not fall within this definition of child abuse or neglect. - More fentanyl compounds face controlled-substance rules: cost, low. Indiana’s Schedule I rules include specified fentanyl compounds, ANPP, and carfentanil. The fentanyl-related category covers substances not already listed in Schedules I through V that meet a listed structural test. These classifications apply to people manufacturing, distributing, possessing, or o… - Organized retail theft counts toward racketeering: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, organized retail theft qualifies as racketeering activity in Indiana. A racketeering pattern requires at least two related incidents meeting the law’s requirements. The last incident must occur within five years after a prior incident. - Civil liability coverage limits medical services: cost, low. One civil-liability provision covers noninvasive care and four listed invasive services. Those services are routine dental care, injections, suturing minor cuts, and opening boils or superficial abscesses. Abortions, including medication abortions, and prescribing controlled or scheduled drugs are… - Electronic charity games face testing requirements: cost, low. The Gaming Commission must set approval standards for electronic raffle systems, including testing and age, identity, and location checks. Raffle operators or payment processors must submit their systems for independent certification or other testing. The commission must also set licensing, technic… - Relative placements get priority and screening: mixed, medium. For court-ordered placements of children alleged to need services, the department must first consider suitable, willing relatives or de facto custodians. Relatives may be related by blood, marriage, or adoption; these homes require a visit before placement. Covered home placements require resident… - Absentee applications face preparation and distribution limits: mixed, low. Others may prefill only a voter’s name, registration address, mailing address, and birth date on an absentee application. They cannot prefill ballot choices, voting reasons, an alternate ballot-delivery address, or the voter’s identification number. Mailed applications require an unsolicited-applic… - Absentee voters face identification checks: mixed, low. Absentee applications request listed identification numbers and the last four Social Security digits, or a copy of qualifying identification. Applicants may provide just one listed number or one listed identification document. Applications through the computerized-list module require one listed ide… - Market alcohol sales expand with limits: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, approved artisan distillers may promote and sell liquor at farmers’ markets in qualified take-home containers. Distillers cannot offer samples for on-site consumption. Farm wineries also need Alcohol and Tobacco Commission approval and must sell wine in qualified containers… - Cleanup claims gain ten-year cost window: mixed, low. Qualifying cleanup cases filed on or after the section’s effective date may seek costs from the 10 years before filing. They may also seek removal, remedial, or corrective-action costs incurred on or after filing. Eligible costs can predate the law’s effective date. The rule does not reopen settled… - Drug-related civil cases reach more counties: mixed, low. For the specified drug-related civil law, a county qualifies as a place of drug activity where a user possesses or uses drugs. It also qualifies where the user lives, works, or attends school during that drug use. A defendant may rebut that county finding with clear and convincing evidence. A count… - Government liability rules define covered people: mixed, low. Specified government liability laws cover current and former people acting for government, whether temporary, permanent, paid, or unpaid. Covered people include board members, volunteer firefighters, elected officials, and specified attorneys. Physicians and optometrists qualify only for care to co… - Officeholders covered; election reports gain email filing: mixed, low. The chapter’s candidate definition includes people holding federal, state, school board, and local elected office. Election reports may be emailed when the receiving office can receive, timestamp, and print them. Emailed reports are due by noon seven days after the report date, with the electronic… - Public contract talks gain closed-door options: mixed, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, governing bodies may privately review publicly bid contract negotiations when public knowledge likely increases costs. They may also privately discuss soliciting proposals containing protected business methods, pricing, or trade-secret information. That exception requires a… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Aaron Freeman (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Greg Taylor (Democratic), Senate - Cosponsor: Karen Engleman (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Pat Boy ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-24 | Senate | Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate | pass | 50 | 0 | | | 2025-04-24 | House | Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House | pass | 90 | 1 | | | 2025-03-17 | House | Third reading: passed | pass | 95 | 0 | | | 2025-01-21 | Senate | Third reading: passed | pass | 49 | 0 | | ## Actions (29) - 2025-05-06: Public Law 186 (Senate) - 2025-05-06: Signed by the Governor (Senate) - 2025-04-29: Signed by the President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-28: Signed by the President Pro Tempore (Senate) - 2025-04-25: Signed by the Speaker (House) - 2025-04-24: CCR # 1 filed in the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 533: yeas 50, nays 0 (Senate) - 2025-04-24: Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 575: yeas 90, nays 1 (House) - 2025-04-24: CCR # 1 filed in the House (House) - 2025-04-24: CCR # 1 filed in the Senate (Senate) - 2025-04-10: House advisors appointed: Bascom, Ireland and Garcia Wilburn (House) - 2025-04-10: House conferees appointed: Engleman and Boy (House) - 2025-04-10: Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Taylor G (Senate) - 2025-04-10: Senate advisors appointed: Pol, Brown L and Clark (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Senate dissented from House amendments (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Motion to dissent filed (Senate) - 2025-03-17: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 268: yeas 95, nays 0 (House) - 2025-03-17: Representative Boy added as cosponsor (House) - 2025-03-17: Returned to the Senate with amendments (House) - 2025-03-13: Second reading: ordered engrossed (House) - 2025-03-10: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted (House) - 2025-03-03: First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2025-01-22: Referred to the House (Senate) - 2025-01-21: House sponsor: Representative Engleman (Senate) - 2025-01-21: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 49, nays 0 (Senate) - 2025-01-14: Second reading: ordered engrossed (Senate) - 2025-01-09: Committee report: do pass, adopted (Senate) - 2025-01-08: First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2025-01-08: Authored by Senators Freeman and Taylor G (Senate) ## Bill text - Enrolled Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.04.ENRH?format=pdf) - Introduced Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.01.INTR?format=pdf) - Senate Bill (H): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.02.COMS?format=pdf) - Senate Bill (S): [PDF](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.03.COMH?format=pdf) ## Related bills - SB 324: Criminal procedures. (signed) - SB 231: Various corrections matters. (signed) - SB 453: Various tax matters. (signed) - SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit. (signed) - SB 371: Workforce matters. (signed) - SB 289: Unlawful discrimination. (signed) ## Sources - [Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.04.ENRH?format=pdf) - [Introduced Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.01.INTR?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (H) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.02.COMS?format=pdf) - [Senate Bill (S) (PDF)](https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/SB0080/versions/SB0080.03.COMH?format=pdf) ## Related - [SB 324: Criminal procedures.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB324-2025) - [SB 231: Various corrections matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB231-2025) - [SB 453: Various tax matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB453-2025) - [SB 464: Financial institutions and consumer credit.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB464-2025) - [SB 371: Workforce matters.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB371-2025) - [SB 289: Unlawful discrimination.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB289-2025) - [Indiana bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/indiana/bills) - [Indiana state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/indiana) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/IN-SB80-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).