Indiana Senate Bill 115 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Passed on March 15 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-15 - Public Law 125
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

School employee misconduct. Provides that a policy adopted by a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school with at least one employee addressing expanded criminal history checks or expanded child protection index checks (background checks) must prohibit the hiring of, continuing the employment of, contracting with, or continuing to contract with a person who has been convicted of an offense requiring license revocation, unless the conviction has been reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal. (Current law provides that such a policy addressing background checks must prohibit the hiring of a person who has been convicted of an offense requiring license revocation, unless the conviction has been reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal.) Provides that: (1) a school corporation; (2) a charter school; or (3) an entity: (A) with which a school corporation contracts for services; and (B) that has employees who are likely to have direct, ongoing contact with children within the scope of the employees' employment; shall consider whether information obtained from the background checks concerning an individual's conviction for certain offenses constitutes grounds to not employ, not contract with, or to terminate the employment of or contract with the individual. Provides that, in the event that an entity obtains information that an individual employed by the entity who works at a particular school corporation or charter school has been convicted of certain offenses, the entity shall immediately notify the school corporation or charter school of the employee's conviction. Makes changes to the list of offenses for which the department of education shall permanently revoke a teacher's license. Makes conforming changes.

School employee misconduct.

Sen. Aaron Freeman [R]	Sen. Mike Bohacek [R]	Sen. Michael Crider [R]	Sen. Erin Houchin [R]
Rep. John Young [R]

2022-03-08 - Senate - Senate - Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-03-07 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2022-02-28 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2022-02-21 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
2022-02-01 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-01-26 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-15	Senate	Public Law 125
2022-03-15	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2022-03-15	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2022-03-09	House	Signed by the Speaker
2022-03-09	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2022-03-08	Senate	Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 344: yeas 50, nays 0
2022-03-07	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 353: yeas 95, nays 0
2022-03-07	House	CCR # 1 filed in the House
2022-03-07	Senate	CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
2022-03-02	House	House advisors appointed: Thompson, Ziemke, Klinker and Pfaff
2022-03-02	House	House conferees appointed: Young J and Smith V
2022-03-02	Senate	Senate advisors appointed: Crider, Ford J.D. and Bohacek
2022-03-02	Senate	Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Yoder
2022-03-01	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2022-03-01	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2022-03-01	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2022-02-28	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 93, nays 0
2022-02-23	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2022-02-21	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2022-02-07	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2022-02-02	Senate	Referred to the House
2022-02-01	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Young J
2022-02-01	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 145: yeas 48, nays 0
2022-01-31	Senate	Senator Houchin added as coauthor
2022-01-31	Senate	Senator Bohacek added as second author
2022-01-31	Senate	Senator Houchin removed as second author
2022-01-31	Senate	Amendment #3 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
2022-01-31	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2022-01-27	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2022-01-10	Senate	Senator Crider added as third author
2022-01-10	Senate	Senator Houchin added as second author
2022-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2022-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senator Freeman

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/115/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/9/9/5/e9955b55/SB0115.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/9/3/3/89338108/SB0115.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/1/b/e/71be2c85/SB0115.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/8/c/c/e8cc051f/SB0115.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/6/3/d/863d7b74/SB0115.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/2/1/d/e21d53f1/SB0115.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/a/f/1/9af12fa2/SB0115.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/8/2/7/7827a31c/SB0115.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/d/0/d/1d0dab45/SB0115.05.ENRH.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/a/e/a/7aea97e5/SB0115.02.COMS.AMS001.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/a/a/7/3aa7739f/SB0115.02.COMS.AMS002.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/4/3/0/74306a66/SB0115.02.COMS.AMS003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/e/8/9/2e89a5ce/SB0115.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/c/1/5/cc15909b/SB0115.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/b/c/c/7bcc1f35/SB0115.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/0/b/9/60b928d8/SB0115.03.ENGS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/f/8/1/df81e003/SB0115.03.ENGS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/7/c/8/97c854f0/SB0115.04.COMH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/f/c/8/cfc88531/SB0115.03.ENGS.CRH001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/e/3/5/9e35a938/SB0115.04.COMH.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/c/e/b/5ceb1497/SB0115.04.COMH.FN003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/2/b/d/32bd53ab/SB0115.04.COMH.DIS01.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/a/f/0/2af0ca6f/SB0115.05.ENRH.FN001.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/4/a/3/34a37fd1/SB0115.01.INTR.02.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/a/7/3/6a73aaff/SB0115.145_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/b/a/d/7badcf40/SB0115.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/e/6/f/9e6fd0cf/SB0115.293_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/6/f/f/d6ff4a85/SB0115.353_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/f/e/a/9fea6735/SB0115.344_S.pdf