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IndianaHB 1637First Regular Session 124th General Assembly (2025)HouseWALLET
School and public safety matters.
Sponsored By: Steve Bartels (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Summary
Expands the eligibility requirements for admission to the Indiana Veterans' Home. Provides that the department of natural resources shall provide staff support for the Indiana semiquincentennial commission (commission). (Current law provides that the Indiana department of veterans' affairs provides staff support for the commission.) Adds a definition of an "eligible person" for purposes of administering grants for veteran services (GVS). Provides that a qualified entity may receive a GVS to provide certain services to support an eligible person. Makes changes to the qualifications to receive a veteran's burial allowance. Establishes the Medal of Honor license plate. Restores a provision of current law concerning certain disability ratings, as determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and educational cost exemptions. Updates references throughout the Indiana Code relating to the armed forces of the United States or uniformed services to include the United States Space Force. Changes references relating to military discharges. Makes technical changes to various references relating to the components of the armed forces of the United States. Provides that Hamilton County is not subject to the political party membership requirements for a board of aviation commissioners or an airport authority. Establishes the office of school safety within the department of homeland security (department) for the purpose of coordinating and administering school security and safety resources. Changes the composition of the secured school safety board. Requires a school corporation or charter school to comply with certain safety related requests by the office of school safety. Authorizes the department to issue enforcement orders in accordance with rules adopted by the board of firefighting personnel standards and education. Removes emergency medical services enforcement authority from the state fire marshal's management authority. Provides that the department, a fire department, an airport fire department, or a volunteer fire department may open burn for fire training purposes if certain conditions are met. Makes various changes to provisions relating to the department's enforcement authority pertaining to the administrative adjudication of building fire and safety laws. Amends the definition of "law enforcement officer" to include the state fire marshal and the executive director or fire investigator of the department. Provides that the fire prevention and building safety commission, with certain exceptions, may not adopt a final rule for more than three building codes during any 12 month period. Defines "correctional services provider" and adds correctional services providers to the definition of "covered person" for purposes of restricting access to a covered person's address on a public property data base website. Provides that a school resource officer who has completed Tier I or Tier II basic training has statewide jurisdiction. Provides that a school resource officer may pursue a person who flees from a school resource officer after the school resource officer has, by visible or audible means, including the operation of the school resource officer's siren or emergency lights, identified themself and ordered the person to stop. Increases the penalty for criminal recklessness from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor. Specifies that the immunities and limitations on liability that apply to a law enforcement officer (and the officer's employing agency) acting within the officer's jurisdictional area also apply to an officer (and employing agency) acting outside the jurisdictional area under certain circumstances. Makes pointing a firearm by a passenger in a vehicle whose driver is committing criminal recklessness a Level 6 felony under certain circumstances. Adds a hospital police department to the definition of police departments required to provide police officers with certain rights. Repeals the provision establishing the department of education's division of school building physical security and safety. Makes conforming amendments.
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38 provisions identified: 28 benefits, 4 costs, 6 mixed.
Space Force members gain state tax deductions
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana’s military tax deductions include qualifying Space Force pay and retirement or survivor benefits. The active- or reserve-service pay deduction covers up to $5,000 each tax year. Retirement and survivor benefits included in adjusted gross income are fully deductible for tax years after 2021. The older retirement deduction cap was $6,250 plus benefits above that amount multiplied by 25% for 2019, 50% for 2020, and 75% for 2021. Taxpayers cannot deduct the same military income again if already subtracted under IC 6-3-1-3.5(a)(18).
Veterans Home broadens service, requires disability
Beginning July 1, 2025, admission under this Indiana Veterans’ Home rule requires a disability; destitution alone no longer qualifies. Covered service includes the Space Force and the NOAA and Public Health Service commissioned corps, plus spouses and surviving spouses. The service member’s discharge must not fall within the excluded conditions in IC 10-17-12-7.5(2). Applicants generally must live in Indiana at admission or establish residency within six months afterward. A veteran can also qualify through Indiana residency when they enlisted.
More veterans qualify for state programs
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana's veteran definition covers residents with qualifying active, reserve, or Indiana National Guard service. Required military job training and discharge standards still apply, along with each program's separate eligibility rules. The qualified-service-member definition also drops its war or national-conflict requirement. Several veterans and military-service definitions now include Space Force service, including qualifying full-time active service. The vehicle-law definition adds the Space Force beginning January 1, 2026.
Service grants reach veterans and caregivers
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana Veterans' Affairs can award grants to qualified groups providing services to veterans and eligible people. Eligible people include armed forces and National Guard members, plus Indiana-resident dependents and primary caregivers of veterans. Veterans no longer need an honorable discharge, but the law's listed discharge exclusions still apply. The law sets no grant amount and does not promise direct cash payments to families.
More educators qualify for military credit
Certain educator retirement-credit paths replace the honorable-discharge requirement with a standard excluding the law's listed discharge conditions. These paths cover retirement rules applicable after June 30, 1980, May 1, 1989, or May 1, 1991. Members must still meet the applicable education, return-to-work or return-to-school, and Indiana service requirements. The teacher-training and state-university employee education paths keep their six-year credit limits.
More veterans gain public job preferences
Beginning July 1, 2025, former active-duty members gain broader access to appointment or reemployment preferences in Indiana’s state classified service. Discharges or separations must not fall within the excluded conditions in IC 10-17-12-7.5(2). Veterans discharged because of line-of-duty wounds or sickness also receive civil-office preference when able to perform the duties. Veterans with at least 181 active-duty days receive exam points equal to 10% of total points for full-time local government jobs. These preferences do not guarantee a job.
More veterans qualify for school diplomas
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana's veteran diploma program replaces its honorable-discharge requirement with the law's listed discharge exclusions. Applicants must have left an Indiana high school in good standing for service during a listed wartime period. They must lack a diploma because they left for military service and must provide proof of their qualifying discharge.
Space Force children gain compact coverage
The law adds the Space Force to the uniformed-services definition used by the compact covering military children. Children in Space Force families now fall within its service-related coverage.
Space Force medics gain renewal access
Beginning July 1, 2025, Space Force service counts for the military renewal path for emergency medical and paramedic credentials. Applicants must enter service with a valid credential and leave within 48 months; Guard and reserve service are excluded. They must finish an approved refresher course within nine months after discharge. They must apply within one year after discharge and pass written and practical exams.
Space Force students gain tuition protections
Beginning July 1, 2025, tuition protections cover Space Force students whose active duty interrupts a term at an Indiana state institution. Within four years after release, they can reenroll without extra tuition or receive a refund or tuition-and-fee credit for unfinished courses. A course already fully reimbursed cannot be reimbursed again.
Veteran hiring preferences cover more service
Beginning July 1, 2025, Space Force service counts under Indiana's veteran employment-preference chapter. Covered township fire and emergency-service jobs replace the honorable-discharge requirement with the law's listed discharge exclusions for war veterans. Covered police and fire department preferences retain honorable-discharge wording and also reference those exclusions. Applicants must apply and meet all legal and department job requirements.
Veteran job programs broaden eligibility
Beginning July 1, 2025, certain employment and training programs use a broader veteran definition for Indiana residents. It covers qualifying prior active-duty service and replaces the honorable-discharge standard with the law's listed discharge exclusions. However, veterans or spouses seeking program priority still must meet program requirements and submit proof of the veteran's honorable discharge.
Veteran businesses gain status and fee relief
Beginning July 1, 2025, supplier-diversity veteran status includes current members and former active-duty, reserve, or National Guard members. Former members’ discharges must exclude conditions listed in IC 10-17-12-7.5(2); the same broader discharge standard applies to these license fee waivers. Covered veterans can get county vendor licenses free by showing discharge papers and proving identity to the county auditor. They also avoid transient merchant license fees in municipalities wholly or partly within a county having a consolidated city, with discharge papers and identity proof. Ordinary vendor rules remain, and supplier-diversity status does not guarantee contracts.
Fire personnel face certification and possible fees
Beginning July 1, 2025, the education board has authority to create a department-run fire certification program. It can certify firefighting programs, instructors, and personnel and support research and curriculum work. Board rules can require personnel certification and continuing education; certification is not generally mandatory without such a rule. The program can charge a reasonable certification fee, deposited in the fire and building services fund.
Veterans can buy public pension credit
Eligible active public retirement fund members can buy up to two years of military service credit. They need one year of fund credit, six months of active duty, and a discharge outside the law's listed exclusions. The price uses current salary, an age-based actuarial rate, years purchased, and accrued interest; payment must finish before retirement. Federal pension limits apply, and credit already granted elsewhere cannot be purchased again. Purchased credit requires at least 10 years of Indiana service to provide a benefit; separation before eligibility triggers refund or withdrawal rules.
Detention health providers gain address privacy
Beginning July 1, 2025, address-confidentiality protections cover correctional health, mental health, and addiction service providers, including employees and contractors. They must serve people lawfully detained in state or local facilities. The law also covers anyone living in the same household as a person covered by the address-confidentiality section.
Medal of Honor plates unlock free parking
Beginning July 1, 2025, owners or lessees displaying Indiana Medal of Honor plates can park at meters without paying. They also avoid penalties for exceeding the meter's time limit. Authorized, posted parking bans under local ordinances or state transportation orders still apply.
Military parents gain longer care arrangements
Beginning July 1, 2025, parents on qualifying active military duty, including Space Force duty, can delegate powers over a minor beyond 12 months. The delegation cannot extend past the active-duty term plus 30 days. The power of attorney must state the military-service requirement and estimated service start and end dates.
Space Force notarizations gain state recognition
Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying federal notarizations by active-duty Space Force commissioned officers are presumed valid in Indiana. The officer must hold the rank of second lieutenant or higher. These acts have the same effect as notarizations by Indiana notarial officers.
Space Force members gain insurance rate protections
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana’s service-member insurance rules include active and reserve Space Force members. When issuing or renewing auto coverage, insurers cannot charge them above the applicable plan rate for a nonmilitary customer. Insurers also cannot charge above the applicable plan rate because of a coverage gap for current service members. That coverage-gap protection also covers people who served within the six months before applying.
Firefighters gain flexible training deadlines
Beginning July 1, 2025, Homeland Security takes over specified firefighter training duties, completion reports, instructor certification, and extension requests. Full-time firefighters hired after December 31, 2009, still must complete Firefighter I and II training in their first year. On a fire department's request, Homeland Security can grant any number of six-month extensions for any reason. Training must use department-certified instructors.
More applicants qualify for veteran-service jobs
County and city veterans service officers can qualify through six months of active service and a discharge outside the listed exclusions. An assistant with at least two years of experience can also qualify as an officer. Assistant positions also accept the specified service qualifications or a qualifying person's spouse, surviving spouse, parent, or child. Officers and assistants must live in Indiana or move there within six months after starting.
Space Force training opens civilian careers
Beginning July 1, 2025, the covered professional licensing chapter counts active and reserve Space Force service as armed-forces service. Space Force surgical technology graduates can also practice in Indiana health care facilities without certification. They must complete 15 hours of surgical technology continuing education each year to keep practicing through that route.
Veterans gain barber and chiropractic licensing help
Beginning July 1, 2025, former service members gain broader access to barber licensing and chiropractic graduation-date protections. Barbers must have held a valid license when entering covered military service and present discharge papers dated within six months. The barber board can charge its established fee. Chiropractic graduates whose studies were interrupted by active-duty induction or enlistment receive a graduation date calculated as though studies continued uninterrupted. They must graduate from a legally incorporated chiropractic school; both licensing paths exclude discharge conditions listed in IC 10-17-12-7.5(2).
Veterans gain broader home hiring preferences
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana Veterans' Home hiring preferences use the law's discharge exclusions instead of requiring an honorable discharge. Among capable and fit applicants, preference covers qualifying veterans and their spouse, widow, widower, mother, or child. The home superintendent appointment preference also uses the broader discharge standard when at least two candidates qualify.
Fire departments gain permit-free training burns
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana Homeland Security and municipal, airport, and volunteer fire departments can conduct specified training burns without permits. Burns must follow statutory conditions and cannot be used for disposal. They must occur in the state’s mobile burn demonstration unit or qualifying training facilities on property owned or controlled by covered entities. Specified wood framing, flooring, drywall, and furnishings burned in the mobile unit are exempt from the unfavorable-weather restriction.
Fire investigators gain law enforcement status
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state fire marshal and Homeland Security fire investigators have law enforcement status while performing department duties. The Homeland Security executive director has that status while performing the director's duties. The law also adds these officials to the covered definition of law enforcement officer.
Schools gain extra safety grant access
Beginning July 1, 2025, eligible public, charter, and accredited nonpublic schools can apply for additional matching safety grants. Uses include specialized firearms instruction, related tuition, or counseling costs after a school shooting. These grants are exempt from the usual one-matching-grant-per-year limit. The law sets no grant amount.
Schools get safety guidance and broader oversight
Each school run by an Indiana school corporation or charter school must have a safe school committee to help plan safety. State guidelines cover threats, staff training, community and student input, armed intruder drills, and age-appropriate, trauma-informed bullying prevention and response. Charter schools operating July 1, 2023, had a July 1, 2024, committee deadline. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of School Safety maintains emergency response system guidelines with Education Department input. The secured school safety board grows from seven to eleven members, including school corporation and charter school employees, a school resource officer, an emergency medical responder, and a firefighter.
Project applicants get clearer plan review exemptions
The department must publish a list of projects eligible for design release without plan review by July 1, 2025. Applicants must submit complete applications, and the department must not select them for plan review. Being on the list does not guarantee release.
Sellers cannot imply false military ownership
Beginning July 1, 2025, nongovernment sellers cannot use “Air Force” or “Space Force” in their business or trade names. The ban also covers descriptions of the seller or sales location. Sellers cannot use other wording likely to suggest U.S. government or military ownership, operation, or management.
Covered professionals face broader discipline rules
Licensing authorities can order covered licensees on probation to perform community restitution or unpaid service, or restrict their actions. Orders set conditions serving the public interest or the licensee's rehabilitation or treatment. Beginning July 1, 2025, disciplinary coverage also expands for personnel authorized to administer or enforce the listed safety laws.
Local veterans officers must gain accreditation
Beginning July 1, 2026, service officers need Indiana Department of Veterans’ Affairs accreditation to serve veterans for a county or city. The requirement applies to officers providing services in that government role.
Reckless conduct brings higher criminal penalties
Beginning July 1, 2025, criminal recklessness becomes a Class A rather than Class B misdemeanor unless a felony classification applies. This covers reckless, knowing, or intentional acts creating a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person. Shooting into an occupied vehicle, inhabited home, or another building or place where people are likely present is a Level 5 felony. A passenger commits a Level 6 felony by pointing a firearm at a person, vehicle, dwelling, or another likely occupied building or place when the driver has committed criminal recklessness. The driver need not be charged or convicted.
Indiana limits building code updates
Beginning July 1, 2025, Indiana's building code commission generally cannot adopt final rules for more than three codes per 12 months. The law retains a statutory exception to that limit. It does not impose a direct household fee.
Child protections expand adult felony exposure
The law expands child-seduction offenses involving children under 18 and adult caregivers, child care workers, coaches, and professionals using undue influence. It also covers officers acting officially and workplace supervisors using their authority, when at least four years older than the child. The supervisor offense excludes dating relationships that began before the child's employment. Penalties range from Level 6 to Level 2 felonies based on the child's age and the sexual conduct.
School officers gain powers, fleeing penalties expand
Beginning July 1, 2025, school resource officers completing Tier I or Tier II basic training have statewide jurisdiction. Officers can pursue someone who flees after they identify themselves by sight or sound and order a stop. The law also removes the exception shielding flight from school resource officers from resisting-law-enforcement charges. Existing penalties now apply to that conduct.
School safety oversight moves to homeland security
Beginning July 1, 2025, the law ends the Department of Education's statutory school safety division. A new Office of School Safety in Homeland Security takes over school-safety duties. School corporation and charter school safety plans must be available for that office to inspect.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Steve Bartels
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Cory Criswell
Republican • House
Fady Qaddoura
Democratic • Senate
Lonnie Randolph
Democratic • Senate
Matt Commons
Republican • House
Michelle Davis
Republican • House
Scott Baldwin
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/24/2025
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House
Yes: 93 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/24/2025
Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate
Yes: 50 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/3/2025
Third reading: passed
Yes: 48 • No: 0
House vote • 2/18/2025
Third reading: passed
Yes: 94 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
5/6/2025HousePublic Law 238
5/6/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate
4/29/2025SenateSigned by the President Pro Tempore
4/28/2025SenateSigned by the Speaker
4/25/2025HouseRules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 529: yeas 50, nays 0
4/24/2025SenateSenator Maxwell removed as advisor
4/24/2025SenateSenator Pol removed as conferee
4/24/2025SenateSenator Maxwell added as conferee
4/24/2025SenateCCR # 1 filed in the Senate
4/24/2025SenateCCR # 1 filed in the House
4/24/2025HouseRules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 568: yeas 93, nays 0
4/24/2025HouseRepresentative Commons added as conferee
4/23/2025HouseRepresentative Commons removed as advisor
4/23/2025HouseRepresentative Moseley removed as conferee
4/23/2025HouseSenator Pol added as conferee
4/16/2025SenateSenator Spencer removed as advisor
4/16/2025SenateSenator Ford J.D. added as advisor
4/16/2025SenateSenator Ford J.D. removed as conferee
4/16/2025SenateHouse conferees appointed: Bartels and Moseley
4/15/2025HouseHouse advisors appointed: Davis, Criswell, Commons, Gore and Klinker
4/15/2025HouseSenate advisors appointed: Spencer and Maxwell
4/14/2025SenateMotion to dissent filed
4/14/2025HouseHouse dissented from Senate amendments
4/14/2025HouseSenate conferees appointed: Baldwin and Ford J.D.
4/14/2025Senate
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