HB1539: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Engrossed House Bill (S)
• Current Chamber: senate
• Origin Chamber: house
• Description: Education matters.

Legislators

Actions (11 total)

• Mar 3, 2025, 5:36 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
• Feb 19, 2025, 6:27 AM: Referred to the Senate
• Feb 18, 2025, 8:46 AM: Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz, Spencer, Ford J.D.
• Feb 18, 2025, 8:46 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 92, nays 0
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:40 AM: Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
• Feb 17, 2025, 11:40 AM: Amendment #1 (Pfaff) prevailed; voice vote
• Feb 17, 2025, 10:43 AM: Representative Klinker added as coauthor
• Feb 13, 2025, 7:32 AM: Representatives Behning and Cash added as coauthors
• Feb 13, 2025, 6:02 AM: Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
• Jan 21, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Education
• Jan 21, 2025, 11:30 AM: Authored by Representative Smith V

Digest

Requires a public school to do the following: (1) Notify a parent of a student not later than 24 hours after the student makes an allegation that an employee of the public school engaged in misconduct. (2) If the public school determines that an allegation is unsubstantiated or otherwise dismissed, provide written notification to the employee and parent of the student not later than 14 days after the determination. Amends the definition of "bullying". Provides that certain discipline rules adopted by the governing body of a school corporation include timetables for reporting of bullying incidents to the parents of both the targeted student and the alleged perpetrator not later than one business day after the incident is reported. (Current law provides reporting of bullying incidents not later than five business days after the incident is reported.) Requires the governing body of a school corporation to: (1) require a school corporation to determine the severity of an incident of bullying and whether the incident may warrant transfer of the victim or the alleged perpetrator to another school in the school corporation; and (2) require a school corporation to approve the transfer of a victim or the alleged perpetrator of an act of bullying to another school in the school corporation under certain circumstances.