State Government / Indiana / Legislation / SB 119
Adds a facility or event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age to the list of facilities at which a sexually violent predator or an offender against children may not work or volunteer. Adds entering a facility or location holding an event that provides entertainment or programming primarily directed toward a child less than 18 years of age by a serious sex offender to the crime of unlawful entry by a serious sex offender. Renames the offense of "inappropriate communication with a child" to "sexual grooming", and provides (in addition to the current elements of the offense) that a person commits the offense if the person engages in a pattern of repeated or continuous contact with an individual whom the person believes to be a child less than 14 years of age, with the intent to condition the individual to be less resistant to future sexual conduct or sexual activity. Specifies that "computer network" includes cellular telephones.
Latest development · Mar 5, 2026
Public Law 111
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Public Law 111
Signed by the Governor
Signed by the Speaker
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Signed by the President of the Senate
Senator Doriot added as coauthor
Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 293: yeas 48, nays 0
Motion to concur filed
Returned to the Senate with amendments
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 98, nays 0
Amendment #2 (Ireland) prevailed; voice vote
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Amendment #1 (Zimmerman) prevailed; voice vote
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
Representative Cash added as cosponsor
Senator Randolph added as coauthor
Referred to the House
Senator Young M added as coauthor
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 96: yeas 46, nays 0
Cosponsor: Representative Bartlett
House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Senator Brown L added as third author
Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
Senator Niemeyer added as second author
Senators Clark, Pol added as coauthors
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
Authored by Senator Dernulc
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