---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child advocacy centers."
description: "Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1123"
citation: "Indiana HB 1123 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS)", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Immunity and Exemption from Liability", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Abuse and Domestic Violence (Excluding Animals)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Greg Walker", "Mark Messmer"]
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/7340d692-2b31-4848-92ae-d796655acdb1"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1123"
source_hash: "4da48f6882a3dbb2a94e2a1ca1ff9959ff6b6ae8eddd9951b158bc9e52dfbde9"
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 1123 (2024) — Child advocacy centers.

Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.

## 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/HB1123/HB1123.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1123/HB1123.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1123/HB1123.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1123/HB1123.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1123 - DeVon — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1123 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1123 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
- Michael Crider — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative DeVon
- **2024-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** Representatives Olthoff, Goss-Reaves, Jackson added as coauthors
- **2024-01-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2024-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
- **2024-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-20** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-20** Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
- **2024-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Senator Crider added as cosponsor
- **2024-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2024-02-28** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 242: yeas 87, nays 0
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 54 `became-law`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7340d692-2b31-4848-92ae-d796655acdb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).