SB 246 Indiana 2026 session
Redaction of court records.
Requires the names and specified other information of child victims, child witnesses, and certain other persons to be redacted in criminal actions. Requires the use of an anonymous designator such as "Child Witness No. 1" when redacting a name, and prohibits redaction that uses the person's initials or that describes the person in terms of a family relationship.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Enacted — last recorded action March 5, 2026
Signed by the Governor
Recorded votes
Passage likelihood
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State-level impact
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Official actions
- Signed by the Governor
- Public Law 129
- Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Signed by the President of the Senate
- Signed by the Speaker
- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 286: yeas 47, nays 0
- Motion to concur filed
- Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 88, nays 0
- Amendment #1 (Bascom) prevailed; voice vote
- Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
- Representative Isa added as cosponsor
- Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
- Representatives Ireland, Zimmerman added as cosponsors
- First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
- Referred to the House
- Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 46, nays 0
- House sponsor: Representative Bascom
- Second reading: ordered engrossed
- Senators Pol, Koch, Clark, Glick added as coauthors
- Senator Carrasco added as second author
- Committee report: do pass, adopted
- Authored by Senator Freeman
- First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law