HR 1564 Summary

• Representative Clyde Kersey, elected to House District 43 in 1996, is leaving the Indiana House of Representatives at the end of the 2018 session.

• Kersey served on the Ways and Means, Labor, Education, Ethics, Natural Resources, Elections and Apportionment, and Interstate and International Cooperation committees.

• He authored HB 1462 (2009) requiring national background checks for teachers and school personnel, and HB 1059 (2007) requiring Holocaust education in all Indiana history classes.

• Before his legislative service, Kersey was a history and economics teacher at Terre Haute North Vigo High School from 1971 to 1998 and served on the Vigo County Council from 1986 to 1996.

• The House of Representatives bids farewell to Kersey and directs the Principal Clerk to transmit copies of the resolution to him and his family.