---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adoptions."
description: "Provides that certain consent to adoption may be withdrawn not later than 15 days after the consent to adoption is signed and that certain persons must file a motion to contest an adoption after receiving certain notice. (Current law allows 30 days to withdraw.) Allows a consent to adoption to be executed or acknowledged in court, in person or by video conferencing. Requires a man to consent to the adoption of a child if he has established paternity and is a biological parent of the child to be adopted. Provides that a court may only require the consent to adopt of a man who has established paternity but is not a biological parent of the child if it is in the best interest of the child to require his consent. Specifies that consent to adopt of a deceased person is not required. Requires a court to expedite certain adoption proceedings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1560"
citation: "Indiana HB 1560 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Adoption"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elizabeth Rowray", "Liz Brown", "Scott Alexander"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3245aca8-d6fe-4e06-ac55-d4e2e7e764b9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1560"
source_hash: "a91ccdadc9a2e67f51be2d725d65c2efc4c5d50c672ad358acbf0a707509d11c"
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 1560 (2023) — Adoptions.

Provides that certain consent to adoption may be withdrawn not later than 15 days after the consent to adoption is signed and that certain persons must file a motion to contest an adoption after receiving certain notice. (Current law allows 30 days to withdraw.) Allows a consent to adoption to be executed or acknowledged in court, in person or by video conferencing. Requires a man to consent to the adoption of a child if he has established paternity and is a biological parent of the child to be adopted. Provides that a court may only require the consent to adopt of a man who has established paternity but is not a biological parent of the child if it is in the best interest of the child to require his consent. Specifies that consent to adopt of a deceased person is not required. Requires a court to expedite certain adoption proceedings.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1560/versions/HB1560.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1560/versions/HB1560.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1560/versions/HB1560.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1560/versions/HB1560.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1560 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **39–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elizabeth Rowray — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Scott Alexander — primary (person)
- Julie McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Representative Rowray
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Representative McGuire J added as coauthor
- **2023-02-20** Representative Garcia Wilburn V added as coauthor
- **2023-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L and Alexander
- **2023-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 89, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14** Amendment #1 (Pol) failed; Roll Call 214: yeas 14, nays 33 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-03-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 224: yeas 39, nays 8 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-03-28** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 327: yeas 92, nays 2
- **2023-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 89 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3245aca8-d6fe-4e06-ac55-d4e2e7e764b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).