Employment of minor league baseball players., the official text

First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)

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  HOUSE ENROLLED ACT No. 1558

   AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning labor and safety.

   Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

   SECTION 1. IC 22-1-1-15 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 15. (a) Every employer,
employee, owner or other person shall furnish to the commissioner of
labor any information which the commissioner of labor is authorized
to require, and shall make true and specific answers to all questions,
whether submitted orally or in writing, which are authorized to be put
to him.

   (b) Every employer shall keep a true and accurate record of the
name, address or occupation of each person employed by him, and of
the daily and weekly hours worked by each such person and of the
wages paid each pay period to each such person. Provided however,
That the record of the daily and weekly hours worked or of the wages
paid shall not be required for any person who:

      (1) is employed in a bona fide executive, agricultural, domestic,
      administrative or professional capacity; or
      (2) is employed in the capacity of an outside salesman; or
      (3) has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor
      league level and is compensated under the terms of a
      collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for
      wages and working conditions.
No employer shall make or cause to be made any false entries in any
such record.

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   SECTION 2. IC 22-2-2-3, AS AMENDED BY P.L.11-2023,
SECTION 75, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2025]: Sec. 3. As used in this chapter:

   "Commissioner" means the commissioner of labor or the
commissioner's authorized representative.

   "Department" means the department of labor.
   "Occupation" means an industry, trade, business, or class of work
in which employees are gainfully employed.
   "Employer" means any individual, partnership, association, limited
liability company, corporation, business trust, the state, or other
governmental agency or political subdivision during any work week in
which they have two (2) or more employees. However, it shall not
include any employer who is subject to the minimum wage provisions
of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C.
201-219).
   "Employee" means any person employed or permitted to work or
perform any service for remuneration or under any contract of hire,
written or oral, express or implied by an employer in any occupation,
but shall not include any of the following:

      (a) Persons less than sixteen (16) years of age.
      (b) Persons engaged in an independently established trade,
      occupation, profession, or business who, in performing the
      services in question, are free from control or direction both under
      a contract of service and in fact.
      (c) Persons performing services not in the course of the
      employing unit's trade or business.
      (d) Persons employed on a commission basis.
      (e) Persons employed by their own parent, spouse, or child.
      (f) Members of any religious order performing any service for that
      order, any ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest,
      rabbi, sexton, or Christian Science reader, and volunteers
      performing services for any religious or charitable organization.
      (g) Persons performing services as student nurses in the employ
      of a hospital or nurses training school while enrolled and
      regularly attending classes in a nurses training school chartered
      or approved under law, or students performing services in the
      employ of persons licensed as both funeral directors and
      embalmers as a part of their requirements for apprenticeship to
      secure an embalmer's license or a funeral director's license from
      the state, or during their attendance at any schools required by law
      for securing an embalmer's or funeral director's license.
      (h) Persons who have completed a four (4) year course in a

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      medical school approved by law when employed as interns or
      resident physicians by any accredited hospital.
      (i) Students performing services for any school, college, or
      university in which they are enrolled and are regularly attending
      classes.
      (j) Persons with physical or mental disabilities performing
      services for nonprofit organizations organized primarily for the
      purpose of providing employment for persons with disabilities or
      for assisting in their therapy and rehabilitation.
      (k) Persons employed as insurance producers, insurance
      solicitors, and outside salesmen, if all their services are performed
      for remuneration solely by commission.
      (l) Persons performing services for any camping, recreational, or
      guidance facilities operated by a charitable, religious, or
      educational nonprofit organization.
      (m) Persons engaged in agricultural labor. The term shall include
      only services performed:

         (1) on a farm, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in
         connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or
         horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing,
         feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock,
         bees, poultry, and furbearing animals and wildlife;
         (2) in the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a
         farm, in connection with the operation, management,
         conservation, improvement, or maintenance of the farm and its
         tools and equipment if the major part of the service is
         performed on a farm;
         (3) in connection with:

            (A) the production or harvesting of maple sugar or maple
            syrup or any commodity defined as an agricultural
            commodity in the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended
            (12 U.S.C. 1141j);
            (B) the raising or harvesting of mushrooms;
            (C) the hatching of poultry; or
            (D) the operation or maintenance of ditches, canals,
            reservoirs, or waterways used exclusively for supplying and
            storing water for farming purposes; and
         (4) in handling, planting, drying, packing, packaging,
         processing, freezing, grading, storing, or delivering to storage,
         to market, or to a carrier for transportation to market, any
         agricultural or horticultural commodity, but only if service is
         performed as an incident to ordinary farming operation or, in

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         the case of fruits and vegetables, as an incident to the
         preparation of fruits and vegetables for market. However, this
         exception shall not apply to services performed in connection
         with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its
         delivery to a terminal market or processor for preparation or
         distribution for consumption.
      As used in this subdivision, "farm" includes stock, dairy, poultry,
      fruit, furbearing animals, and truck farms, nurseries, orchards, or
      greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the
      raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities.
      (n) Those persons employed in executive, administrative, or
      professional occupations who have the authority to employ or
      discharge and who earn one hundred fifty dollars ($150) or more
      a week, and outside salesmen.
      (o) Any person not employed for more than four (4) weeks in any
      four (4) consecutive three (3) month periods.
      (p) Any employee with respect to whom the Interstate Commerce
      Commission has power to establish qualifications and maximum
      hours of service under the federal Motor Carrier Act of 1935 (49
      U.S.C. 304(3)) or any employee of a carrier subject to IC 8-2.1.
      (q) A person engaged in services as a direct seller. The term shall
      include only services performed:
         (1) by a person that is in the trade or business of:

            (A) selling, or soliciting the sale of, consumer products or
            services to any buyer on a buy-sell basis,
            deposit-commission basis, or similar basis, in any place
            other than in a permanent retail establishment; or
            (B) selling, or soliciting the sale of, consumer products or
            services in any place other than in a permanent retail
            establishment;
         (2) when substantially all the remuneration, whether or not
         paid in cash, for the performance of the services is directly
         related to sales or other output, including the performance of
         services, rather than the number of hours worked; and
         (3) when the services performed by the person are performed
         pursuant to a written contract and the contract provides that
         the person who performs the services will not be treated as an
         employee for tax purposes under the contract.
      (r) A person who:
         (1) has entered into a contract to play baseball at the minor
         league level; and
         (2) is compensated under the terms of a collective

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         bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages
         and working conditions.

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Speaker of the House of Representatives

President of the Senate

President Pro Tempore

Governor of the State of Indiana

Date:                             Time:

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