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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program."
+description: "Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has an intellectual disability and is subject to a guardianship."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 16"
+citation: "Indiana SB 16 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS; Adoption", "COUNTIES; La Porte", "COUNTIES; Marshall", "COUNTIES; Starke", "COURTS; Guardianships and Conservatorships", "HEALTH; Developmental Disabilities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jim Pressel", "Mike Bohacek", "Ron Alting"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01cb8065-ae7a-4a1a-ac64-13074ca57cde"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0016"
+source_hash: "47a98bafaeb6408c197cc6d20aba00b1d3f1d7c79fa95d5cd8b2fe58d7d8d5c3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 16 (2024) — Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program.
+
+Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has an intellectual disability and is subject to a guardianship.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0016/SB0016.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0016/SB0016.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0016/SB0016.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0016/SB0016.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 16 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 16 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jim Pressel — primary (person)
+- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
+- Ron Alting — primary (person)
+- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senators Bohacek and Alting
+- **2024-01-11** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 45, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-01-18** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-18** Cosponsor: Representative Jordan
+- **2024-01-18** House sponsor: Representative Pressel
+- **2024-01-19** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 256: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-03-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-13** Public Law 97 `became-law`
+- **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01cb8065-ae7a-4a1a-ac64-13074ca57cde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+