---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts for children three years of age and younger in need of services."
description: "Establishes a safe baby court as a type of problem solving court. Provides that a child in need of services is an eligible individual for purposes of a problem solving court program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1101"
citation: "Indiana HB 1101 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally", "COURTS; Juvenile Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Liz Brown", "Ryan Lauer", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad22e1f8-c695-4088-8a08-01a00ce27d27"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1101"
source_hash: "fcdb031fcd629b70eb12e9e1950affb4334a85f7e86b953f500de0d2a21f9798"
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 (2024) — Courts for children three years of age and younger in need of services.

Establishes a safe baby court as a type of problem solving court. Provides that a child in need of services is an eligible individual for purposes of a problem solving court program.

## 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/HB1101/HB1101.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1101/HB1101.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1101/HB1101.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1101/HB1101.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1101 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- HB 1101 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1101 - Lauer — **88–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Blake Doriot — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Julie McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative Lauer
- **2024-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-30** Representatives McGuire and Davis added as coauthors
- **2024-01-30** Representative Bauer M added as coauthor
- **2024-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Senate sponsors: Senators Koch, Brown L, Donato
- **2024-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 118: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Senators Walker G and Taylor G added as cosponsors
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 165: yeas 46, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Senator Doriot added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-22** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-22** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 188: yeas 88, nays 0
- **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 51 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad22e1f8-c695-4088-8a08-01a00ce27d27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).