S.E.A. 324, P.L. 197-2025
Effective: July 1, 2025
- Increases the penalty levels of crimes related to fentanyl.
- Provides that a court shall consider requiring certain persons charged with a crime of domestic violence to wear a monitoring device as a condition of bail.
- Requires that a bail hearing for a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee be held in open court and provides that before releasing a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee on bail the court must review the probable cause affidavit or arrest warrant and impose money bail payable by surety bond or cash deposit.
- Provides that in accordance with IC 27-10-2-4.5(g)(2), a charitable bail organization may not pay money bail on behalf of a violent arrestee or a repeat violent arrestee.
Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/324