State Government / Indiana / Legislation / HB 1040
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Increases the penalty for battery on certain health care employees and school employees. Specifies that the enhancement for battery committed against a department of child services (DCS) employee applies only to those DCS employees whose responsibilities include personally supervising a child or parent, personally providing services to a child or parent, or personally interviewing a child or parent as part of an investigation. Requires the employer of a health care or school employee who is the victim of battery to make a semiannual report to the department of labor concerning workplace batteries.
Latest development · Feb 19, 2026
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
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Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
Referred to the Senate
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 44: yeas 92, nays 1
Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman, Carrasco, Raatz
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Representative Pfaff added as coauthor
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
Authored by Representative McNamara
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
Coauthored by Representatives Engleman, Barrett
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