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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 409: Employee absence for certain meetings.

Enacted 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

SB 409 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Employee absence for certain meetings. Primary sponsor: Becky Cash (Republican), Linda Rogers (Republican), Rodney Pol (Democratic). It lists 11 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 24, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

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Official summary

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

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 8 · Republican 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Becky CashPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse25
Linda RogersPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate11
Rodney PolPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate4
Stacey DonatoCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate18
Blake DoriotCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate12
Andrea HunleyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate46
La Keisha JacksonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Chuck MoseleyCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
David NiezgodskiCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate10
Julie OlthoffCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse19
Lonnie RandolphCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate2
Greg WalkerCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate41
Victoria Garcia WilburnCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse32
Shelli YoderCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate40

“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. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 109
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker
  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  6. Returned to the Senate without amendments
  7. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 415: yeas 96, nays 0
  8. Second reading: ordered engrossed
  9. Committee report: do pass, adopted
  10. First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions
  11. Referred to the House
  12. Senator Jackson L added as coauthor

Showing 12 most recent of 27 actions. Full history

Sources

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