A section of both the House and Senate policies say employees are prohibited from bringing handguns into any meeting related to personnel matters, including evaluations, disciplinary action and human resource discussions.

Currently Indiana residents wish to carry a handgun must fill out an application, get fingerprinted and pay a fee. Several police organizations support keeping the current licensing.

A joint committee heard lengthy testimony on the issue of whether or not to eliminate Indiana’s handgun license requirement.

The issue of whether to repeal a law that requires Hoosiers to be permitted to carry a handgun will likely come up next session.

The study committee looked at laws are being adopted by other states allowing people to carry a handgun without a permit.

The bill expands the list of those allowed to carry inside the state’s capitol building, as judges, police and legislators are already able to do.

An Indiana House committee voted Tuesday to create a special summer committee to study the issue.

A House committee approved an amendment to a gun regulations bill that would create a study committee to investigate eliminating all handgun licenses.

Indiana lawmakers can carry guns in the Statehouse, and they want their staff members to be able to do the same. A Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill granting that permission.