---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health grants."
description: "Allows the division of mental health and addiction to award mental health grants to for-profit community mental health organizations if a nonprofit organization does not qualify for the grant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1070"
citation: "Indiana HB 1070 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)", "HEALTH; Behavioral Health; Mental Illness and Treatment", "STATE GOVERNMENT; State and Local Funding"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Becky Cash", "Jean Leising", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75ffc443-9e22-4afb-8316-aa3c993d0027"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1070"
source_hash: "b06979579d9eb4f35addcc7c788819a86fd081e00455bf9e1e8e19332010729d"
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 1070 (2024) — Mental health grants.

Allows the division of mental health and addiction to award mental health grants to for-profit community mental health organizations if a nonprofit organization does not qualify for the grant.

## 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/123/2024/house/bills/HB1070/HB1070.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1070/HB1070.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1070/HB1070.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1070/HB1070.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1070 - Cash - 3rd Reading — **90–4** (pass) · lower
- HB 1070 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Becky Cash — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Renee Pack — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Lauer — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Cash
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-09** Reassigned to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
- **2024-01-23** Representatives Lauer and Pack R added as coauthors
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 77: yeas 90, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Senators Donato and Becker added as cosponsors
- **2024-02-19** Senator Leising added as second sponsor
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 163: yeas 46, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Senator Taylor G added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-27** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `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 48 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75ffc443-9e22-4afb-8316-aa3c993d0027`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).