HB 1363 changesVarious public safety matters.

What changed

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This bill comprehensively revises Indiana's public safety framework, with the most significant changes eliminating employment protections and due process rights for law enforcement training staff, substantially expanding sex offender registry requirements, and increasing healthcare costs for jail inmates. The legislation removes longstanding protections against politically-motivated termination of training employees and eliminates their right to hearings before termination. It restructures sex offender registration with new lifetime registration triggers based on victim age (under 12), victim injury, or multiple violations, while also establishing tolling provisions during incarceration. The bill doubles the maximum healthcare copayment for county jail inmates from $15 to $30, though it extends the payment grace period from 60 to 180 days. Additional changes establish new procurement procedures requiring budget agency approval and competitive scoring rubrics for certain public safety contracts, and add multiple conditions under which inmates may be exempt from medical copayments.

Change log

• SECTION 80 > (5)

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  New provision clarifying registration period tolling, non-restart rules, and offender notification requirements

  This new subsection establishes that the sex or violent offender registration period is tolled (paused) during incarceration and does not restart upon conviction of a subsequent non-registrable offense. If the subsequent offense is itself a sex or violent offense, a new registration period may be imposed. The department must notify offenders when their registration obligation expires and remove their information from the public registry website.

• SECTION 1 > (j)

  removedhigh confidence

  Removal of employment protection provisions for training staff

  This section previously protected employees and training staff members from discharge, demotion, or suspension based on political affiliation, and required that any such adverse actions occur only for cause with written charges from the executive director. The entire provision has been deleted from the statute.

• SECTION 1 > (k)

  removedhigh confidence

  Employee hearing right provision eliminated

  This section previously granted discharged or disciplined employees the right to request a hearing before the board within 15 days of receiving written notice. The entire provision establishing this hearing right and the 15-day notice requirement has been removed from the statute.

• SECTION 1 > (l)

  removed