Legislative record

HB 1040STATE · IndianaIntroduced

Battery against school and healthcare employees.

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.

Voted 2/19/2026

Roll-call record

How representatives voted

91 yea·1 nay·7 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 2/19/2026Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
  2. 2/19/2026Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  3. 2/12/2026Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  4. 1/27/2026First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
  5. 1/14/2026Referred to the Senate
  6. 1/13/2026Senate sponsors: Senators Freeman, Carrasco, Raatz
  7. 1/13/2026Third reading: passed; Roll Call 44: yeas 92, nays 1
  8. 1/12/2026Second reading: ordered engrossed
  9. 1/8/2026Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  10. 1/8/2026Representative Pfaff added as coauthor