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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1394: Authority to deny enrollment to unlawful immigrant.

In committee 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 1394 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Authority to deny enrollment to unlawful immigrant. Primary sponsor: Jim Lucas (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (January 21, 2025): Representative Prescott added as coauthor.

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.

Authorizes a school corporation to deny an immigrant student enrollment in a school operated by the school corporation if the school corporation determines by a preponderance of the evidence that the immigrant student is present in the United States in violation of law. Requires the attorney general to defend the school corporation in any cause of action brought against the school corporation for denying an immigrant student enrollment. Requires a school corporation to annually report the number of immigrant students present in the United States in violation of law who were enrolled in a school operated by the school corporation in the immediately preceding school year.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jim LucasPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse69
J.D. PrescottCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse33

“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. Representative Prescott added as coauthor
  2. First reading: referred to Committee on Education
  3. Authored by Representative Lucas

Sources

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