Legislation

HB 1408, now HEA 1408, includes language requiring platforms to verify users’ age and Indiana residency and to maintain a 10-year “age estimation” system tied to usage/activity and demographic data.

While this bill failed, similar language may be reintroduced in a future session. SB 138 would have let public schools and charter schools hire, or approve as volunteers, school chaplains who meet specified education background requirements. Chaplains would be able to provide secular guidance and support to students and staff. They could also provide nonsecular services with permission from the student and, in the case of minors, a parent. This bill would have violated important separation of church and state constitutional protections. Chaplains are religious advisers by definition. School counselors are trained to provide secular support for students. Chaplains are not. Placing them in an official role inside public schools — whether paid or voluntary — creates an environment ripe for religious coercion and indoctrination, especially in a school setting where authority dynamics are unavoidable.

This bill would prevent the governor from ordering the Indiana National Guard to police communities in the state. It would protect the National Guard’s mission of responding to emergencies such as natural disasters, riots, and acts of terrorism.

SEJR 1 has passed out of the Indiana General Assembly once again and will be headed to voters' ballots in November.

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.

Senate Bill 11 and HB 1119 represent a disturbing and barbaric escalation of state power. Instead of shifting away from capital punishment, both bills would allow the state to execute people by firing squad under certain conditions. HB 1119 would also allow the use of nitrogen hypoxia – which causes suffocation. The United Nations says the method “will likely violate the prohibition on torture.” Both bills would allow these violent execution methods to be implemented behind a veil of secrecy that would make it practically impossible to investigate mistakes, unsafe practices, or constitutional violations. We oppose these bills because they are inhumane and push Indiana further down the path of expanding the death penalty — a cruel, irreversible practice that should be abolished.

House Bill 1032 sought to redraw all nine congressional districts to be used starting with the 2026 elections. It stretched districts to give one party an unfair advantage and broke up many communities in the process, including Indianapolis, which would have been split into four districts. It suspended the usual requirement that precincts can’t cross congressional lines during that election cycle and directed the state’s election division to help county voter registration officers implement changes.