Text of IN SB 380 (2025)
Threatening leafleting.
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SENATE BILL No. 380
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 35-45-2-7.
Synopsis: Threatening leafleting. Creates the crime of threatening
leafleting, a Class A misdemeanor, and provides a penalty
enhancement.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Goode
January 13, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal
Law.
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Introduced
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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SENATE BILL No. 380
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
criminal law and procedure.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
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SECTION 1. IC 35-45-2-7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
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AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
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1, 2025]: Sec. 7. (a) A person who intentionally places written
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material on the private property of any person that would cause a
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reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or
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threatened and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized,
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frightened, intimidated, or threatened commits threatening
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leafleting, a Class A misdemeanor, except as provided in subsection
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(b).
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(b) The offense is a Level 6 felony if the threatening leafleting is
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because of the actual or perceived:
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(1) race;
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(2) color;
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(3) religion;
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(4) sex;
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(5) sexual orientation;
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(6) gender identity or expression;
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(7) physical or mental disability;
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(8) age;
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(9) ethnicity;
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(10) ancestry; or
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(11) national origin;
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of another individual.
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(c) An offense under this section does not include statutorily or
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constitutionally protected activity.
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