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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Military protective order."
+description: "Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence of a military protective order in effect against a respondent for the protection of the petitioner. Amends provisions concerning facially valid foreign protection orders to include certain protection orders issued by a Canadian court."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1286"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1286 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ARMED FORCES; Servicemembers", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence", "COURTS; Generally", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cyndi Carrasco", "Ryan Lauer"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-06"
+last_action: "2026-03-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24b2bab3-afda-4e74-a8ad-b4676023871a"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1286"
+source_hash: "c7cb84b20b4b68b95a57c263df59458597a46543bf8e54898e81fa5e447c82d2"
+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 HB 1286 (2026) — Military protective order.
+
+Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence of a military protective order in effect against a respondent for the protection of the petitioner. Amends provisions concerning facially valid foreign protection orders to include certain protection orders issued by a Canadian court.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.04.ENGS.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.05.ENRS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.03.COMS.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1286 - Lauer — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1286 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1286 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
+- Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
+- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
+- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-06** Authored by Representative Lauer
+- **2026-01-27** Representative Bauer added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-27** Representative Zimmerman added as coauthor
+- **2026-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Carrasco
+- **2026-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 181: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-03** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2026-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-17** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-25** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 376: yeas 95, nays 0
+- **2026-02-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-25** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2026-02-26** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Public Law 90 `became-law`
+- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24b2bab3-afda-4e74-a8ad-b4676023871a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+