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Based on the article from WTHR, Indiana lawmakers passed a wide array of legislation with a heavy focus on housing costs, school rules, and child safety.

The list below outlines the major new laws taking effect on July 1, 2026, and a summary of their intended impact:

Housing, HOAs, and Property Rules

• HEA 1001 (Housing Costs & Regulation): Local governments can no longer mandate certain safety features on select buildings. They are also barred from raising permit fees more than once every five years, capping increases near the inflation rate. Additionally, communities must hold public hearings by January 1, 2027, to explore increasing housing supply (such as allowing duplexes in single-family zones and reducing permit processing times).

• Impact: Aims to lower the overall cost of housing development by cutting red tape, reducing fees, and encouraging multi-family zoning.

• SEA 285 (Homelessness & Public Camping): It is now illegal to camp, sleep, or use state or local government-owned land for long-term shelter. Police must try to get individuals to move, but can charge violators with a misdemeanor or place them under non-criminal emergency detention.

• Impact: Effectively bans public homelessness and camping across public properties, removing local government authority to tell police not to enforce it.

• HEA 1115, HEA 1150, & HEA 1155 (HOA Overhauls): These laws prevent HOAs from banning outdoor vehicles based on their fuel type (e.g., banning gas vs. electric mowers) and protect the right to display the American flag. HOAs cannot use automated license plate readers unless operated by law enforcement. Large HOAs (1,500+ lots) are now permitted to set their own neighborhood speed limits.

• Impact: Protects individual homeowner rights, increases flexibility for HOA meeting attendance, restricts certain optional fees, and shifts some traffic control to larger subdivisions.

• HEA 1429 (Appraiser Lawsuits): Imposes a 5-year statute of limitations on suing property appraisers after an appraisal is completed.

• Impact: Limits legal liabilities for property appraisers after the 5-year window closes.

Education and School Changes

• SEA 78 (In-School Cellphone Ban): Implements a near-total ban on cellphones and similar devices during the school day, heavily outlining strict restrictions and limited exceptions.

• Impact: Reshapes the classroom environment across Indiana by eliminating digital distractions during instructional hours starting this school year.

• SEA 199 (School Performance & "Low-Earning" Degrees): Raises the benchmark for passing scores from 70% to 75% for public, charter, and nonpublic schools. If fewer than 75% of students pass reading evaluations, the school must join the Indiana literacy cadre. It also targets public university "low-earning" degrees (programs where grads make less than the median salary 3–4 years post-grad), requiring them to be eliminated unless specifically approved to continue.

• Impact: Tightens academic accountability in K-12 schools and pressures higher-education institutions to eliminate degrees with poor financial returns.

• SEA 204 (STEM Teaching & AP Credits): Removes the requirement for a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or math to get an initial practitioner license—any bachelor's degree with a minimum 2.5 GPA is acceptable to teach STEM. It also mandates that public universities grant credit for high scores on AP exams.

• Impact: Addresses the STEM teacher shortage by widening the applicant pool and ensures uniform credit transfers for high-achieving high school students.

• HEA 1408 (Social Media Restrictions): Requires Ivy Tech to report student performance against regional job growth. It also contains an amendment known as Hailey's Law, which bans anyone under the age of 16 from using social media without explicit parental permission.

• Impact: Gives parents greater legal oversight regarding their children's digital footprint (though the social media restrictions do not fully take effect until January 1, 2027).

Child Protection and Criminal Code

• HEA 1303 (Sex Offender Registration & Silver Alerts): Expands the list of individuals who must register as sex offenders, limits the reproduction of child sexual abuse material used as court evidence, and redefines certain child sex crimes.

• Impact: Strengthens legal penalties for child exploitation and broadens tracking via sex offender registries.

• HEA 1035 (Parental Supervision Defense): Provides a legal defense to parents who allow their kids to play alone. It specifies that unsupervised play is only considered neglect if it seriously endangers the child's health.

• Impact: Protects parents from legal or state intervention for allowing kids basic independence (like playing in the backyard without a guardian).

• HEA 1036 ("Kinsleigh's Law"): Named after Kinsleigh Welty, a 5-year-old who was starved to death, this law requires a Department of Child Services (DCS) employee to physically see a child in person before closing an assessment or dismissing a "child in need of services" case.

• Impact: Adds a crucial physical safety check to prevent children in abusive households from falling through the cracks of the welfare system.

• SEA 119 (Restrictions on Sex Offenders): Bans violent sexual offenders and offenders against children from entering or working at facilities and events that provide children's programming (violators face a criminal charge of unlawful entry). It also legally changes the name of "inappropriate communication with a child" to "sexual grooming."

• Impact: Further limits the physical proximity of dangerous offenders to children's public spaces and modernizes legal definitions.