...its famous Pi Bill in 1897 ( but that bill was luckily shelved by the Indiana Senate ) :
At least, they admit their history:
This Week in Indiana History
The Indiana Pi Bill Passes the House:
February 6th, 1897
In 1897, Bill #246, famously known as the Indiana Pi Bill, was introduced and passed by the House unanimously. In it, amateur Mathematician Edwin Goodwin claimed that Pi was not the recognizable 3.14 everyone came to know in grade school, but actually 3.2.
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https://www.in.gov/library/files/Pi_Bill.pdf
Here is a paper on the history connected to that ill-advised bill:
House Bill No. 246 Revisited
Arthur E. Hallerburg
Department of Mathematics
Valparaiso University,
Valparaiso, Indiana 46383
Introduction
In the year 1966 the State of Indiana celebrated the Sesquicentennial of its admission into statehood, and the Indiana Academy of Science joined in this observance with a number of appropriate activities. Among these was a program of invited papers on the history of the various sciences and of mathematics in the state over the 150-year period.
For a small number of persons the association of "Indiana" and "mathematics" immediately brings to mind the true story of the attempt in 1897 of the state legislature to pass a bill establishing a new way of "squaring the circle." In essence the bill would have provided for use in this state a new value of [pi], the "circle number. "But Dr. Will Edington [4], who wrote on the history of mathematics in Indiana for the above observance, did not include reference to this story in his review—and probably rightfully so. For, first of all, the bill was not passed ( parenthetically, nor was it defeated—only "indefinitely postponed" ); second, incorrect or false "mathematics" is not mathematics; and finally, Dr. Edington had already recounted in detail in the 1937 Proceedings of the Academy[3] the action of both the House and the Senate on House Bill 246.
Accounts of circle squarers and angle trisectors have been so common over the centuries that mathematicians customarily pay them no concern. The fact that the mathematical work of E. J. Goodwin, M.D., found its way into the legislative halls and was almost passed into law has set this solution somewhat apart from the rest. The story has been given a brief paragraph in several journals and books on the history and miscellania [sic: miscellanea] of mathematics, and it gives a bit of comic relief to any account of the "history of [pi]."
The usual reference notes that the bill actually proposed, in verbose and hidden verbiage, two different values of [pi], first the value of 4, and then 3.2. In 1961 the story was featured in a Sunday Supplement article in the Indianapolis Star Magazine[19]; that account is based largely on Dr. Edington's source material, with the addition of pictures and information concerning some of the legislators involved.
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https://journals.indianapolis.iu.edu/index.php/ias/article/view/8180/8139
Based on that example, Utah's recent banning of the use of fluoride in public water systems, Idaho's recent efforts to limit vaccinations, and a recent Iowa bill to outlaw the use of mRNA vaccines, it should be abundantly clear that legislative bodies should not be in control of universities, their faculties, or anything else that requires debate over actual truth. Legislatures can barely handle political discourse. Marjorie Taylor Greene, "Coach" Tuberville, and Markwayne Mullin are prime examples of that and belong in the pantheon of the barely sentient along with Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachmann, Steve King, Jason Chaffetz and Dan Quayle.
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