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type: "Bill"
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title: "Employee absence for certain meetings."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "SB 409"
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citation: "Indiana SB 409 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["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"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Becky Cash", "Linda Rogers", "Rodney Pol"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2025-01-13"
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last_action: "2025-04-24"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96cb3a76-ae26-4537-a8dc-c60b4d354242"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0409"
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source_hash: "8bd4aaa308c3e654fa2d7ffdcd5ecbffe47bda017e019aded67a31603bc02591"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 409 (2025) — Employee absence for certain meetings.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0409/SB0409.04.ENGS.pdf)
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2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0409/SB0409.03.ENGS.pdf)
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3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0409/SB0409.06.ENRH.pdf)
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4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0409/SB0409.01.INTR.pdf)
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5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0409/SB0409.05.COMH.pdf)
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## Votes
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- SB 409 - Pol - 3rd Reading — **30–19** (pass) · upper
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- SB 409 - Cash - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Becky Cash — primary (person)
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- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
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- Rodney Pol — primary (person)
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- Andrea Hunley — coauthor (person)
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- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
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- Chuck Moseley — cosponsor (person)
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- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
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- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
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- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
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- La Keisha Jackson — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
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- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
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- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Pol
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- **2025-01-29** Senator Rogers added as second author
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- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-30** Senators Niezgodski, Doriot, Walker G, Hunley, Donato added as coauthors
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- **2025-02-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-04** Amendment #1 (Pol) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-04** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-06** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-11** Placed back on second reading
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- **2025-02-19** Amendment #4 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
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- **2025-02-19** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 191: yeas 30, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-20** House sponsor: Representative Cash
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- **2025-02-20** Cosponsors: Representatives Olthoff, Moseley, Garcia Wilburn
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- **2025-02-20** Senator Jackson L added as coauthor
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- **2025-02-21** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-03** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2025-04-08** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-09** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 415: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-10** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
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- **2025-04-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2025-04-14** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-16** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2025-04-24** Public Law 109 `became-law`
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- **2025-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96cb3a76-ae26-4537-a8dc-c60b4d354242`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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