---
type: "Bill"
title: "Daycare licensure exemption in declared emergency."
description: "Exempts from day care licensure requirements a child care program that: (1) is operated by a public or private organization under a contract with a public or private school; (2) serves children who are enrolled in a public or private school in grades kindergarten through 12, or in a preschool program offered by the public or private school; and (3) serves children who are: (A) attending school through remote or e-learning due to a disaster emergency; or (B) participating in a learning recovery program that administers an assessment to measure student learning loss and provides Indiana academic standards aligned instruction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1101"
citation: "Indiana HB 1101 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Care Programs", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Ron Alting", "Ronald Grooms", "Steven Davisson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7bb3cd4b-641d-4062-99aa-9520a520dbfa"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1101"
source_hash: "af8a43846f6a160150253aeb0258cc298028c52128c8ba06e616e4133683fdca"
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 1101 (2021) — Daycare licensure exemption in declared emergency.

Exempts from day care licensure requirements a child care program that: (1) is operated by a public or private organization under a contract with a public or private school; (2) serves children who are enrolled in a public or private school in grades kindergarten through 12, or in a preschool program offered by the public or private school; and (3) serves children who are: (A) attending school through remote or e-learning due to a disaster emergency; or (B) participating in a learning recovery program that administers an assessment to measure student learning loss and provides Indiana academic standards aligned instruction.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1101/versions/HB1101.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1101/versions/HB1101.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1101/versions/HB1101.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1101/versions/HB1101.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1101/versions/HB1101.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1101 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Ron Alting — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Steven Davisson — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Craig Snow — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-07** Authored by Representative Davisson
- **2021-01-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-01** Representatives DeVon, Snow C, Jackson added as coauthors
- **2021-02-02** Senate sponsors: Senators Houchin and Grooms
- **2021-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 38: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-16** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-16** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Amendment #1 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-22** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 254: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Senator Alting added as third sponsor
- **2021-03-24** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-08** Motion to dissent filed
- **2021-04-08** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Houchin and Ford J.D.
- **2021-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Grooms and Qaddoura
- **2021-04-12** House conferees appointed: DeVon and Jackson
- **2021-04-12** House advisors appointed: Behning, Davisson and Summers
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2021-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2021-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 473: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2021-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 486: yeas 82, nays 0
- **2021-04-22** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 173
- **2021-04-29** 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/7bb3cd4b-641d-4062-99aa-9520a520dbfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).