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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana SB 128 classifies teachers as public safety officials and establishes parental criminal penalties for certain school-based firearm or injury offenses
Last action · December 11, 2025: First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal LawSponsor: David Niezgodski
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 128 adds teachers to the legal definition of public safety officials, increasing penalties for battery against them, and establishes a new criminal offense for parents or guardians who fail to notify law enforcement when they know or should know a child intends to commit a violent or firearm-related act on school property or a school bus resulting in injury.
Parents or legal guardians face criminal charges ranging from a to a if a child commits a violent or firearm offense on school grounds and the adult failed to report known threats, while teachers receive the same legal protections against battery as law enforcement officers.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Teachers
Teachers gain increased legal protections by being included under the definition of public safety officials for battery offenses.
Parents, guardians, and custodians
Adults responsible for a child face new criminal penalties if they fail to notify law enforcement about known school-based firearm or injury offenses committed by the child.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Dec 11, 2025SenateIntroducedFirst reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
- Dec 11, 2025SenateAuthored by Senator Niezgodski
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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