Rep. Jack Jordan

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing Hoosier Direct Support Professionals.

Requires the Indiana law enforcement training board to establish mandatory training in de-escalation as part of the use-of-force curriculum, and requires de-escalation training to be provided as a part of: (1) pre-basic training; (2) mandatory inservice training; and (3) the executive training program. Establishes a procedure to allow the Indiana law enforcement training board to decertify an officer who has committed misconduct. Defines "chokehold" and prohibits the use of a chokehold under certain circumstances. Specifies that a law enforcement officer who turns off a body worn camera with the intent to conceal a criminal act commits a Class A misdemeanor. Requires an agency hiring a law enforcement officer to request the officer's employment record and certain other information from previous employing agencies, requires the previous employing agency to provide certain employment information upon request, and provides immunity for disclosure of the employment records. Makes an appropriation to the Indiana law enforcement training academy for making capital improvements.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson upon her retirement from the Office of the Indiana Secretary of State.

Recognizing Religious Freedom Day.

Establishes a definition of "virtual instruction" for purposes of determining a school corporation's basic tuition support using the average daily membership (ADM).

Establishes a two year pilot program whereby the John Glenn School Corporation may initiate a process to disannex certain territory from an existing school corporation and annex the territory.

Honoring the 2021 NBA Rising Star Award Recipients.

Provides that, with certain exceptions, a person who knowingly or intentionally uses a camera or electronic surveillance equipment: (1) located outside of another person's private property; (2) to record images or data of the interior of the other person's dwelling; and (3) without the other person's consent; commits a Class C infraction. Makes a technical correction.

Provides that money accumulated from the Marshall County additional tax rate for criminal justice facilities, after the tax imposed is terminated, shall be transferred to the county jail fund to be established by the county treasurer (rather than to the county highway fund under current law).

Provides that each postsecondary educational institution that receives funding from the state may not: (1) exclude a student from participating in or receiving benefits from; or (2) subject a student to discrimination or an official sanction under; an educational program, activity, or division of the postsecondary educational institution on the basis of participating in a protected association. Describes the manner in which state and private postsecondary educational institutions must submit statements of compliance with freedom of speech and association rights to the commission for higher education (commission). Requires the commission to review and publish on the commission's Internet web site in a searchable data base the statements submitted and a list of state educational institutions and private postsecondary educational institutions that failed to submit a statement. Allows a person to engage in noncommercial expressive activity on a campus of a state educational institution when certain conditions are met. Defines expressive activity as: (1) all forms of peaceful assembly; (2) protests; (3) speeches; (4) distribution of literature; (5) carrying signs; (6) circulating petitions; and (7) the recording and publication, including Internet publication of video and audio lawfully recorded; in a public outdoor area of a state educational institution. Prohibits a person from materially disrupting a previously scheduled or reserved activity on campus. Defines a material and substantial disruption. Permits the attorney general or a person whose expressive rights were allegedly violated to bring a civil action in court. Awards $500 for the first violation and $50 for each day the plaintiff's rights remain violated when a violation of this chapter is found. Allows the court to award compensatory damages, reasonable court costs, and attorney's fees when a violation of this chapter is found. Prohibits total damages stemming from a single controversy to exceed $100,000. Requires that a civil action for a violation must begin not later than one year after the date the alleged violation occurs. Prescribes the circumstance under which the statute of limitations is tolled. Provides that a college or university student who: (1) is accused of; or (2) accuses another student of; a violation of the college's or university's disciplinary or conduct rules has a right to representation, at the student's expense, in a disciplinary proceeding conducted by the college or university regarding the violation, if the violation carries a potential penalty of suspension for 10 or more days or expulsion. Provides that a college or university student organization that is accused of a violation of the college's or university's disciplinary or conduct rules has a right to representation, at the student organization's expense, in a disciplinary proceeding conducted by the college or university regarding the violation. Prescribes procedural requirements for college or university disciplinary proceedings. Creates a cause of action for a student or student organization whose right to representation is violated. Provides that a state university that accepts federal funds may not: (1) subject a student of the state university to a disciplinary sanction solely on the basis of the student's expressive activity or other communication that, when engaged in outside of the campus of the state university, is protected from governmental restriction by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; (2) retaliate against an employee of a state university who acts to protect a student engaged in expressive activity or communication or refuses to infringe upon expressive activity or communication; or (3) subject state university campus media to prior restraint or prepublication approval, subject to certain exceptions. Provides a cause of action for a student or employee alleging a violation of these restrictions, and provides that the court: (1) may award the student or employee compensatory damages, reasonable court costs, attorney's fees, expert witness fees, any other relief in equity or law the court finds appropriate; and (2) shall award the student or employee not less than $1,000; if the court finds the state university has violated these restrictions.