2020 Indiana General Assembly Legislative Session Wrap-up

The 2020 Indiana General Assembly adjourned sine die on Saturday, March 14th. To adjourn sine die means to complete the session without setting a specific date for the body to meet again. 

Women4Change worked hard during the session to champion our legislative priorities. Check out our legislative wrap-up below to review some of what we accomplished during that time!

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Legislative Wins

  • Senate Bill 146, sexual assault victims’ rights passed both chambers and is on the governor’s desk.

  • We worked with a coalition of organizations across the state to raise awareness about the importance of in-depth consent legislation. 

  • We drew attention to the crisis of maternal mortality in Indiana through press coverage, committee testimony, and social media posts.  

  • We met with legislators across the political spectrum, earning bipartisan support for a pregnancy accommodations bill.

Action Advocates 

  • We had the support of 120 Action Advocates who served as on-call activists to contact their legislators & attend events such as bill hearings, press conferences, and rallies.

Member Advocacy

  • Constituents contacted their representatives 200+ times using our OneClick Politics tool.

  • We hosted the Women’s Economic Equality Press conference with our Equality Pay$ Coalition partners to draw attention to issues like paid family leave and pregnancy accommodations.

  • We collected and displayed more than fifteen hundred postcards from Hoosiers across the state that told their stories of sexual harassment and assault.

  • We hosted a Valentine’s Day Letter-Writing Campaign where attendees wrote dozens of letters to their legislators asking for in-depth consent legislation.

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