Legislative record

SB 119STATE · IndianaIntroduced

Grooming.

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.

Voted 3/5/2026

Roll-call record

How representatives voted

143 yea·0 nay·5 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 3/5/2026Signed by the Governor
  2. 3/5/2026Public Law 111
  3. 2/27/2026Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. 2/27/2026Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  5. 2/27/2026Signed by the Speaker
  6. 2/26/2026Senator Doriot added as coauthor
  7. 2/25/2026Returned to the Senate with amendments
  8. 2/25/2026Motion to concur filed
  9. 2/25/2026Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 293: yeas 48, nays 0
  10. 2/24/2026Third reading: passed; Roll Call 339: yeas 98, nays 0