The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 136 on conviction data sponsored by Rep. Bartels. The bill defines a person prohibited from possessing or carrying a handgun. The bill also creates a new conviction database that is a repository for several other databases, allowing law enforcement to check one database, not multiple databases, to determine if a person is prohibited from possessing or carrying a handgun.
The Indiana Office of Court Technology and the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council testified in support of the bill. The bill passed 10-1.
Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/136