First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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SENATE ENROLLED ACT No. 409
AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SECTION 1. IC 22-2-20 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS
A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2025]:
Chapter 20. Employee Absence to Attend Certain Meetings
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "case conference committee" has
the meaning set forth in IC 20-35-9-3.
Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "child" means a biological child,
adopted child, foster child, or stepchild.
Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "employee" means a person
employed or permitted to work or perform services for
remuneration under a contract of hire, written or oral, by an
employer.
Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "employer" means the following:
(1) A sole proprietor, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, or other entity with one (1) or more
employees.
(2) A state agency.
(3) A political subdivision (as defined in IC 36-1-2-13).
Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "state agency" means an
authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department,
division, or other instrumentality of any of the following:
(1) The executive, including the administrative department of
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state government.
(2) The legislative department of state government.
(3) The judicial department of state government.
(4) A state educational institution.
(5) A body corporate and politic created by statute.
Sec. 6. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), an
employer may not take an adverse employment action against an
employee as a result of the employee's absence from work to
attend:
(1) an attendance conference under IC 20-33-2.5; or
(2) a case conference committee meeting;
with respect to the employee's child.
(b) An employer may take an adverse employment action
against an employee as a result of the employee's absence from
work to attend a conference or meeting described in subsection (a)
if:
(1) the employee has attended more than one (1) conference
or more than one (1) meeting for the calendar year;
(2) the absence was longer than reasonably necessary to:
(A) attend; and
(B) travel to and from;
the conference or meeting; or
(3) the employee failed to give the employer notice of the
conference or meeting at least five (5) days in advance of the
conference or meeting.
(c) An employer is not required to pay an employee for:
(1) attending; or
(2) traveling to or from;
a conference or meeting described in subsection (a).
Sec. 7. (a) An employee shall provide to the employee's employer
documentation that the employee attended a conference or meeting
described in section 6 of this chapter.
(b) Upon request, a school shall provide to an employer or the
employee of the employer documentation of a conference or
meeting described in section 6 of this chapter.
Sec. 8. An employee shall make a reasonable effort to schedule
a conference or meeting described in section 6 of this chapter as an
electronic conference or meeting.
Sec. 9. This chapter expires July 1, 2029.
SEA 409 President of the Senate
President Pro Tempore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Governor of the State of Indiana
Date: Time:
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