republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-409.md

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Bill	Employee absence for certain meetings.	Prohibits an employer from taking an adverse employment action against an employee as a result of the employee's absence from work to attend an attendance conference or a case conference committee meeting with respect to the employee's child, except under certain circumstances. Provides that an employer is not required to pay an employee for travel or attendance time with respect to a conference or meeting. Requires certain persons to provide documentation related to a conference or meeting under certain circumstances.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 409	Indiana SB 409 (2025)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining Benefits and Wages LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Labor Disputes LOCAL GOVERNMENT; Employees PROTECTED CLASSES STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees	enacted	Becky Cash Linda Rogers Rodney Pol	5	27	2	2025-01-13	2025-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/96cb3a76-ae26-4537-a8dc-c60b4d354242	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0409	8bd4aaa308c3e654fa2d7ffdcd5ecbffe47bda017e019aded67a31603bc02591	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 409 (2025) — Employee absence for certain meetings.

Prohibits an employer from taking an adverse employment action against an employee as a result of the employee's absence from work to attend an attendance conference or a case conference committee meeting with respect to the employee's child, except under certain circumstances. Provides that an employer is not required to pay an employee for travel or attendance time with respect to a conference or meeting. Requires certain persons to provide documentation related to a conference or meeting under certain circumstances.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 409 - Pol - 3rd Reading — 30–19 (pass) · upper
• SB 409 - Cash - 3rd Reading — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Cash — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Rodney Pol — primary (person)
• Andrea Hunley — coauthor (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Chuck Moseley — cosponsor (person)
• David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
• Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
• La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
• Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
• Victoria Garcia Wilburn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senator Pol
• 2025-01-29 Senator Rogers added as second author
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Senators Niezgodski, Doriot, Walker G, Hunley, Donato added as coauthors
• 2025-02-04 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-04 Amendment #1 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-04 Senator Yoder added as coauthor
• 2025-02-06 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2025-02-11 Placed back on second reading
• 2025-02-19 Amendment #4 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-19 Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 30, nays 19 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-20 House sponsor: Representative Cash
• 2025-02-20 Cosponsors: Representatives Olthoff, Moseley, Garcia Wilburn
• 2025-02-20 Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
• 2025-02-21 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-08 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-09 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 415: yeas 96, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-10 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-04-14 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-14 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-16 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-24 Public Law 109 became-law
• 2025-04-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96cb3a76-ae26-4537-a8dc-c60b4d354242. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).