SB 218 Indiana Senate · 2021 Regular Session

Township homeless assistance.

Summary
Establishes the low barrier homeless shelter task force. Beginning July 1, 2022: (1) allows a township trustee to place a homeless individual temporarily in a county home or provide temporary township assistance; and (2) requires the township trustees within a county to collaborate and prepare a list of public and private resources available to the homeless population that is distributed and published on the county's Internet web site, if the county has a web site, not later than March 1 of each year. Provides that a person commits the offense of criminal trespass if: (1) the person, who does not have a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters or refuses to leave the property of another person after having been prohibited from entering or asked to leave the property by a law enforcement officer when the property is designated by a municipality or county enforcement authority to be an unsafe building or premises; or (2) the person knowingly or intentionally enters the property of another person after being denied entry by a court order that has been issued to the person or issued to the general public by conspicuous posting on or around the premises in areas where a person can observe the order when the property has been designated by a municipality or county enforcement authority to be an unsafe building or premises; unless the person has the written permission of the owner, the owner's agent, an enforcement authority, or a court to come onto the property for purposes of performing maintenance, repair, or demolition. Provides that an individual who harasses another person with the intent to obtain property from the other person commits aggressive harassment, a Class C misdemeanor. Defines "harasses". Repeals the chapter concerning panhandling.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Mar 2021
Senate Passage
Feb 2021
House Passage
Mar 2021
Signed into Law
Apr 2021
Introduced Mar 31, 2021 Signed Apr 19, 2021
Floor votes · House Mar 29, 2021

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Amendments
2
Apr 19, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Apr 1, 2021
Amended
Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 317: yeas 48, nays 0
upper
Mar 31, 2021
Introduced
Motion to concur filed
upper
Mar 30, 2021
Amended
Returned to the Senate with amendments
lower
Mar 29, 2021
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 314: yeas 92, nays 1
lower
Mar 18, 2021
Lower · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
lower
Feb 17, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House
upper
Feb 16, 2021
Upper · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 46, nays 0
upper
Feb 11, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
upper
3 primary · 6 co-sponsors

Sponsors