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| Bill | Deduction of dues to exclusive representative. | Provides that a school employee has the right to resign from, and end any financial obligation to, a school employee organization at any time. Provides that a school employee must annually authorize a pay deduction to a school employee organization. Provides that the attorney general, in consultation with the Indiana education employment relations board (board) shall prescribe an authorization for withholding form for use by a school employee to deduct dues from the pay of the school employee to the school employee organization. Adds certain requirements for information to be included on the form. Provides that after receiving the authorization for withholding form, the employer shall confirm the authorization by sending an electronic mail message to the school employee at the employee's school provided work electronic mail address and shall wait for confirmation of the authorization before starting any deduction. Specifies the time frame for (1) ceasing withholding upon receipt of a request, and (2) providing notice to the school employee organization. Provides that a school employer shall annually provide, at a time it prescribes, written or electronic mail notification to its school employees of their right to cease payment of school employee organization dues and to withdraw from that organization. Specifies what the notification must include. Provides that the attorney general, in consultation with the board and the department of education, must annually provide notice to school employers of certain provisions. | us/states/in | Indiana General Assembly | 2021 | SB 251 | Indiana SB 251 (2021) |
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Indiana SB 251 (2021) — Deduction of dues to exclusive representative.
Provides that a school employee has the right to resign from, and end any financial obligation to, a school employee organization at any time. Provides that a school employee must annually authorize a pay deduction to a school employee organization. Provides that the attorney general, in consultation with the Indiana education employment relations board (board) shall prescribe an authorization for withholding form for use by a school employee to deduct dues from the pay of the school employee to the school employee organization. Adds certain requirements for information to be included on the form. Provides that after receiving the authorization for withholding form, the employer shall confirm the authorization by sending an electronic mail message to the school employee at the employee's school provided work electronic mail address and shall wait for confirmation of the authorization before starting any deduction. Specifies the time frame for (1) ceasing withholding upon receipt of a request, and (2) providing notice to the school employee organization. Provides that a school employer shall annually provide, at a time it prescribes, written or electronic mail notification to its school employees of their right to cease payment of school employee organization dues and to withdraw from that organization. Specifies what the notification must include. Provides that the attorney general, in consultation with the board and the department of education, must annually provide notice to school employers of certain provisions.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- SB 251 - Boots - 3rd Reading — 27–22 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Chuck Goodrich — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-14 Authored by Senator Boots
- 2021-01-14 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-02-11 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-02-15 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-02-15 Senator Raatz added as third author
- 2021-02-16 Senator Rogers added as second author
- 2021-02-16 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- 2021-02-16 Third reading: failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 131: yeas 24, nays 22
failure, reading-3 - 2021-02-18 Reread third time: passed; Roll Call 137: yeas 27, nays 22
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-18 House sponsor: Representative Goodrich
- 2021-02-18 Cosponsor: Representative Behning
- 2021-02-19 Referred to the House
- 2021-03-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-03-25 Representative Prescott added as cosponsor
- 2021-04-01 Representative Carbaugh added as cosponsor
- 2021-04-01 Committee report: do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-04-05 Amendment #1 (Hatfield) failed; Roll Call 357: yeas 31, nays 62
amendment-failure - 2021-04-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-04-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 366: yeas 58, nays 34
passage, reading-3 - 2021-04-07 Returned to the Senate without amendments
- 2021-04-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- 2021-04-13 Signed by the Speaker
- 2021-04-19 Signed by the President of the Senate
- 2021-04-22 Public Law 98
- 2021-04-22 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e241c4e-ee78-4a02-8792-957c49fa7d3a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).