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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adoption and foster care matters."
+description: "Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief, unless the discriminatory act as applied to the person is required to advance a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of advancing the interest. Specifies that a governmental entity may consider whether a person involved in adoption or foster care matters shares the same religion or faith tradition as a child or the child's parent when considering placement of a child. Allows a person to bring a cause of action against a governmental entity for discriminating against the person, or raise a violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding, and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 1389"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1389 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS; Adoption", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care", "CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS", "CIVIL RIGHTS", "STATE GOVERNMENT; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Walker", "Shane Lindauer", "Stacey Donato", "Tyler Johnson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2026-01-08"
+last_action: "2026-02-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ea6f107-3b7a-4f20-abb5-a015bd533e57"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1389"
+source_hash: "cee80c4cde413db585d15f6b0b6c3a0cc8f7efed9f8e07bfafe8bd19d250610b"
+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 1389 (2026) — Adoption and foster care matters.
+
+Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief, unless the discriminatory act as applied to the person is required to advance a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of advancing the interest. Specifies that a governmental entity may consider whether a person involved in adoption or foster care matters shares the same religion or faith tradition as a child or the child's parent when considering placement of a child. Allows a person to bring a cause of action against a governmental entity for discriminating against the person, or raise a violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding, and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1389/HB1389.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1389/HB1389.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1389/HB1389.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1389/HB1389.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1389 - Johnson T - 3rd Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
+- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — **69–29** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1389 - Lindauer — **84–12** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 2nd Reading — **29–62** (fail) · lower
+- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 2nd Reading — **26–63** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Walker — primary (person)
+- Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
+- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
+- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
+- Brian Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
+- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
+- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
+- Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
+- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Gaskill — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Heaton — coauthor (person)
+- Scott Alexander — cosponsor (person)
+- Spencer Deery — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-08** Authored by Representative Lindauer
+- **2026-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-13** Representatives Jeter, DeVon, Heaton added as coauthors
+- **2026-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-01-29** Amendment #2 (Garcia Wilburn) failed; Roll Call 158: yeas 26, nays 63 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2026-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-29** Amendment #3 (Garcia Wilburn) failed; Roll Call 159: yeas 29, nays 62 `amendment-failure, failure`
+- **2026-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 69, nays 29 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Johnson T
+- **2026-02-03** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2026-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-09** Senator Buchanan added as cosponsor
+- **2026-02-09** Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
+- **2026-02-09** Senators Deery, Byrne, Brown L added as cosponsors
+- **2026-02-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-16** Senators Gaskill, Alexander added as cosponsors
+- **2026-02-16** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-16** Senator Donato added as third sponsor
+- **2026-02-17** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 44, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2026-02-18** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
+- **2026-02-19** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2026-02-19** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 300: yeas 84, nays 12
+- **2026-02-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2026-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2026-02-25** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Public Law 43 `became-law`
+- **2026-02-26** 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/1ea6f107-3b7a-4f20-abb5-a015bd533e57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+