H.E.A. 1637, P.L. 238-2025
Effective: July 1, 2025
- 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.
Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/house/1637