republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-342.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 342	Indiana SB 342 (2023)	bill	CRIMES AND OFFENSES Criminal History Information EDUCATION Secretary of Education State Department and Boards SCHOOLS Teachers	enacted	Aaron Freeman Jack Sandlin Robert Behning	5	22	1	2023-01-12	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/584f4658-c0a1-467c-9c5d-21587446562b	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/342	65b39158db2162f6df729d1bc4a20148de893236c9b90071b6280a0db87e3f01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
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 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; origin ocd-bill/584f4658-c0a1-467c-9c5d-21587446562b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).