republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/sb-115.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2022	SB 115	Indiana SB 115 (2022)	bill	CRIMES AND OFFENSES Criminal History Information SCHOOLS Officers and Employees (other than teachers) SCHOOLS Teachers	enacted	Aaron Freeman John Young Michael Crider Mike Bohacek	5	33	1	2022-01-04	2022-03-15	openstates	ocd-bill/8514ce85-84da-40d8-9cdb-1e51cac76c56	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/115	2662dc6abb28f0ed9681c7ba57f6fbe5c964d6a50923125f43af65deb4bd5d91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 115 (2022) — 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.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 115 - Young J - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aaron Freeman — primary (person)
• John Young — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-04 Authored by Senator Freeman
• 2022-01-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-01-10 Senator Houchin added as second author
• 2022-01-10 Senator Crider added as third author
• 2022-01-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 Amendment #3 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2022-01-31 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-01-31 Senator Houchin removed as second author
• 2022-01-31 Senator Bohacek added as second author
• 2022-01-31 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
• 2022-02-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 145: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 House sponsor: Representative Young J
• 2022-02-02 Referred to the House
• 2022-02-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2022-02-21 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2022-02-23 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 293: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-03-01 Motion to dissent filed
• 2022-03-01 Senate dissented from House amendments amendment-failure
• 2022-03-02 House conferees appointed: Young J and Smith V
• 2022-03-02 House advisors appointed: Thompson, Ziemke, Klinker and Pfaff
• 2022-03-02 Senate conferees appointed: Freeman and Yoder
• 2022-03-02 Senate advisors appointed: Crider, Ford J.D. and Bohacek
• 2022-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
• 2022-03-07 CCR # 1 filed in the House
• 2022-03-07 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 353: yeas 95, nays 0
• 2022-03-08 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 344: yeas 50, nays 0
• 2022-03-09 Signed by the Speaker
• 2022-03-09 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2022-03-15 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2022-03-15 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2022-03-15 Public Law 125

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8514ce85-84da-40d8-9cdb-1e51cac76c56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).