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2026 Legislative Session: What is Happening
- December 1-12, 2025 – Early Session: The House and Senate are convening to consider congressional redistricting and other legislator priority bills.
- January 2026 – Remainder of Session: The Indiana General Assembly will reconvene in early January to take up the full range of 2026 legislative business.
Our Legislative Advocacy
Our advocacy work is just one of the ways we advance civil liberties in our state. We spend a significant amount of time engaging in the legislative process, monitoring key issues, and talking with Indiana legislators. We aim to support bills that strengthen our Constitutional rights and defeat bills that threaten them, but we cannot do this work without you. Use the tools and resources below to engage in the ACLU of Indiana's legislative advocacy efforts.
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Bills & Legislation
The 2026 legislative session has begun early to address redistricting.
See the 2025 bills we tracked and review the legislative report and scorecard here.
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Dec 05, 2025
Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering (HB 1032)
House Bill 1032 redraws all nine congressional districts to be used starting with the 2026 elections. It stretches districts to give one party an unfair advantage and breaks up many communities in the process, including Indianapolis, which would be split into four districts. It suspends the usual requirement that precincts can’t cross congressional lines during that election cycle and directs the state’s election division to help county voter registration officers implement changes.
Status:
Failed
Position:
Oppose
Dec 18, 2025
End of Life Options (HB 1011)
This bill would give mentally capable, terminally ill adults with a prognosis of six months or less the option to obtain and take medication that would allow them to peacefully end their lives. It contains numerous safeguards against possible abuse, including requirements for witnesses, self-administration of the medication, mental health evaluations, and criminal penalties for coercion.
We support this bill because it upholds the fundamental right of individuals to make deeply personal decisions about both life and death. Decisions about end-of-life care are immensely personal. Every terminally ill individual should have the liberty to choose how they spend their final days and face death. This autonomy includes access to the full spectrum of end-of-life care options, including hospice, palliative care, and the right to seek physician-assisted aid in dying.
Status:
Introduced
Position:
Support
Dec 18, 2025
Execution by Firing Squad (SB 11)
Senate Bill 11 is a disturbing and barbaric escalation of state power. Instead of shifting away from capital punishment, it allows the state to execute people by firing squad when lethal injection drugs are unavailable or when the person facing execution requests it.
The bill outlines the way a firing squad execution would be carried out: with five Department of Corrections officers, four with live rounds of ammunition and one with a blank round. These officers would not know who had the blank ammunition, and their identities would be kept secret.
We oppose this bill because it is inhumane and pushes Indiana further down the path of expanding the death penalty — a cruel, irreversible practice that should be abolished.
Status:
Introduced
Position:
Oppose
