SB0523: A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

Page last updated: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM (America/Indianapolis).

General Information

• Stage: Senate Bill (H)
• Current Chamber: house
• Origin Chamber: senate
• Description: School chaplains.

Legislators

Actions (10 total)

• Mar 3, 2025, 11:30 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Education
• Feb 12, 2025, 11:14 AM: Referred to the House
• Feb 11, 2025, 10:55 AM: Cosponsors: Representatives McGuire, Davis, Teshka
• Feb 11, 2025, 10:55 AM: House sponsor: Representative Miller D
• Feb 11, 2025, 10:52 AM: Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: yeas 32, nays 16
• Feb 10, 2025, 9:31 AM: Second reading: ordered engrossed
• Feb 6, 2025, 1:34 PM: Senators Byrne, Rogers, Schmitt added as coauthors
• Feb 6, 2025, 8:39 AM: Committee report: do pass, adopted
• Jan 16, 2025, 9:14 AM: First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
• Jan 16, 2025, 9:14 AM: Authored by Senators Donato and Raatz

Digest

Allows a principal or superintendent of a public school, including a charter school, to employ, or approve as a volunteer, a school chaplain if certain requirements are met. Allows a school chaplain to provide: (1) secular advice, guidance, and support services; and (2) nonsecular advice, guidance, and support services if certain conditions are met. Provides that, with exceptions, communications made by a student to a school chaplain are privileged and confidential.