republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1285.md

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Bill	Education matters.	Prohibits a school corporation from doing the following: (1) Removing a student's property without providing the student's parent with the opportunity to collect the student's property if the student has died, transferred, dropped out, or otherwise withdrawn from enrollment in the school corporation for any reason. (2) Adopting a policy or otherwise preventing a parent of a student from recording a meeting concerning the student's individualized education program. Requires each school corporation to ensure at least one employee in each school building that is used for classroom instruction: (1) has obtained nonviolent crisis intervention training; and (2) is present in the school building during the school year while school is in session. Establishes requirements regarding the employee. Requires the department of education to review nonviolent crisis intervention training programs and make recommendations to school corporations regarding the training of employees.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1285	Indiana HB 1285 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Mental Health Facilities MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Child Support Custody and Visitation PROPERTY; Generally SCHOOLS; Discipline SCHOOLS; Generally SCHOOLS; Health and Safety Issues SOCIAL SERVICES; Social Workers	enacted	Becky Cash Brian Buchanan Daryl Schmitt Tyler Johnson	4	22	2	2025-01-13	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/8d611e70-57c2-4361-b8ab-f6d0d0b8cb36	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1285	e4149e6a856a2020c4ab14a27a08dbfbce9ca7103dad8a99cca065ec61e37ba8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1285 (2025) — Education matters.

Prohibits a school corporation from doing the following: (1) Removing a student's property without providing the student's parent with the opportunity to collect the student's property if the student has died, transferred, dropped out, or otherwise withdrawn from enrollment in the school corporation for any reason. (2) Adopting a policy or otherwise preventing a parent of a student from recording a meeting concerning the student's individualized education program. Requires each school corporation to ensure at least one employee in each school building that is used for classroom instruction: (1) has obtained nonviolent crisis intervention training; and (2) is present in the school building during the school year while school is in session. Establishes requirements regarding the employee. Requires the department of education to review nonviolent crisis intervention training programs and make recommendations to school corporations regarding the training of employees.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1285 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — 46–1 (pass) · upper
• HB 1285 - Cash - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Cash — primary (person)
• Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
• Daryl Schmitt — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Craig Haggard — coauthor (person)
• Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Authored by Representative Cash
• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-27 Representatives Davis and Haggard added as coauthors
• 2025-02-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-18 Cosponsor: Senator Byrne
• 2025-02-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 216: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Senate sponsors: Senators Buchanan, Johnson T, Schmitt
• 2025-02-19 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-27 Amendment #1 (Buchanan) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-03-27 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-31 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-03-31 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 309: yeas 46, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-16 Joint Rule 15 Certification
• 2025-04-21 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-22 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-01 Public Law 165 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d611e70-57c2-4361-b8ab-f6d0d0b8cb36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).