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Indiana · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1040: Battery against school and healthcare employees.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1040 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on December 2, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Battery against school and healthcare employees. Primary sponsor: Wendy McNamara (Republican), Aaron Freeman (Republican), Cyndi Carrasco (Republican), Jeff Raatz (Republican). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 19, 2026): Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Wendy McNamaraPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse76
Aaron FreemanPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate32
Cyndi CarrascoPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate36
Jeff RaatzPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate27
Brad BarrettCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse56
Karen EnglemanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse70
Tonya PfaffCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  2. Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
  3. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  4. First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
  5. Referred to the Senate
  6. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 44: yeas 92, nays 1
  7. Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman, Carrasco, Raatz
  8. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  9. Representative Pfaff added as coauthor
  10. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  11. Authored by Representative McNamara
  12. First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source