---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher hiring."
description: "Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to consider using a more comprehensive expanded criminal history background check for employment. Repeals current law concerning a school corporation or charter school's employment of, or contracting with, certain individuals, and establishes a new section that: (1) prohibits a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school from employing or contracting with specified individuals; (2) after June 30, 2023, allows a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school to employ or contract with certain other individuals with a majority vote of the school board, or the equivalent for a charter school, or with a notification of the appointing authority. Specifies that \"misconduct\" includes certain specified acts. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school that receives a reference request from another school to disclose specified incidents to the requesting school. Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 342"
citation: "Indiana SB 342 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Criminal History Information", "EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aaron Freeman", "Jack Sandlin", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/584f4658-c0a1-467c-9c5d-21587446562b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/342"
source_hash: "65b39158db2162f6df729d1bc4a20148de893236c9b90071b6280a0db87e3f01"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 342 (2023) — Teacher hiring.

Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to consider using a more comprehensive expanded criminal history background check for employment. Repeals current law concerning a school corporation or charter school's employment of, or contracting with, certain individuals, and establishes a new section that: (1) prohibits a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school from employing or contracting with specified individuals; (2) after June 30, 2023, allows a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school to employ or contract with certain other individuals with a majority vote of the school board, or the equivalent for a charter school, or with a notification of the appointing authority. Specifies that "misconduct" includes certain specified acts. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school that receives a reference request from another school to disclose specified incidents to the requesting school. Makes conforming changes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0342/versions/SB0342.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 342 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
- Jack Sandlin — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-12** Authored by Senator Freeman
- **2023-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Senator Sandlin added as second author
- **2023-02-02** Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 70: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2023-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** Representative Cash B added as cosponsor
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 331: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-31** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 355: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2023-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 110 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/584f4658-c0a1-467c-9c5d-21587446562b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).