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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Reunification plan for a child in need of services."
+description: "Amends the circumstances under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 171"
+citation: "Indiana SB 171 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS; Children in Need of Services (CHINS)", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Ryan Lauer", "Stacey Donato", "Tyler Johnson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc871f4e-ecc3-42eb-86cc-c12913b41a62"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0171"
+source_hash: "a8ec5794984023d3a0a8fd534e27b64912f4b105ce0726ccad71840d690d3a07"
+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 171 (2024) — Reunification plan for a child in need of services.
+
+Amends the circumstances under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required.
+
+## 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/SB0171/SB0171.04.ENRH.pdf)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0171/SB0171.01.INTR.pdf)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0171/SB0171.02.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0171/SB0171.03.COMH.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 171 - Walker G - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 171 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Walker — primary (person)
+- Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
+- Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
+- Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Vanessa Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Walker G
+- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2024-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 86: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Ledbetter, Patterson, Olthoff
+- **2024-02-01** Senator Donato added as second author
+- **2024-02-01** Senator Johnson T added as third author
+- **2024-02-01** Senator Becker added as coauthor
+- **2024-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Lauer
+- **2024-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-20** Representative Summers added as cosponsor
+- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
+- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 172: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-20** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-11** Public Law 19 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc871f4e-ecc3-42eb-86cc-c12913b41a62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+