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IN HB1526
Bill
Status
2/22/2019
Primary Sponsor
Terri Jo Austin
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AI Summary
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Postsecondary educational institutions must provide research-based hazing education programs covering awareness, prevention, policies, and legal consequences to all students and staff who advise student organizations; Ivy Tech Community College is exempt from student education requirements
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Institutions must publicly report all hazing violations on their websites starting in the 2020 academic year, including organization names, incident dates, charges, findings, and sanctions; reports must be updated at least 10 days before each semester and maintained for 5 years
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Hazing offense upgraded from Class B to Class A misdemeanor; elevated to Level 5 felony (previously Level 6) if resulting in serious bodily injury, blood alcohol content of 0.25 or higher, or death
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Persons who direct or engage in hazing resulting in injury must provide reasonable assistance including calling 911; failure to seek assistance is a Class B misdemeanor, or Level 6 felony if serious bodily injury results
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Victim consent, institutional approval, and tradition/custom are explicitly not valid defenses to hazing charges; institutions must report hazing allegations involving serious bodily injury or significant risk thereof to law enforcement within 72 hours
Legislative Description
Hazing. Provides that a postsecondary educational institution must develop an educational plan on hazing. Requires a postsecondary educational institution to report incidents of hazing on the postsecondary educational institution's Internet web site. Amends the elements and penalty levels for the offense of hazing. Provides that any person who actively directs or engages in an act of hazing which results in the injury of another person, shall, to the extent that the person can do so without danger or peril to self or others, give reasonable assistance to the injured person. Provides that failure to seek assistance, in no serious bodily injury, is a Class B misdemeanor. Provides that failure to seek assistance results in serious bodily injury the offense is a Level 6 felony. Provides that certain arguments are not a defense to hazing or contributory hazing.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
3/4/2019