---
type: "Bill"
title: "Youth, family, and caregiver engagement initiative."
description: "Provides that the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana (CISC) must create and provide staff support to a statewide youth, family, and caregiver engagement initiative to carry out certain duties. Adds that CISC must provide staff to the statewide juvenile justice oversight body."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1098"
citation: "Indiana HB 1098 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "AND COUNCILS; Generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Youth Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "La Keisha Jackson", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1407528-e2c0-4250-b16c-02244773a285"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1098"
source_hash: "241a147d554daa063894bb25d066df86e61abe1a3f70aa35d12a1c4ad1198ade"
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 1098 (2025) — Youth, family, and caregiver engagement initiative.

Provides that the commission on improving the status of children in Indiana (CISC) must create and provide staff support to a statewide youth, family, and caregiver engagement initiative to carry out certain duties. Adds that CISC must provide staff to the statewide juvenile justice oversight body.

## 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/124/2025/house/bills/HB1098/HB1098.06.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1098/HB1098.05.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1098/HB1098.04.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1098/HB1098.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1098 - DeVon — **89–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1098 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1098 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- La Keisha Jackson — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney Pol — cosponsor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative DeVon
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Representative Summers added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 154: yeas 92, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-13** Senate sponsors: Senators Donato and Jackson L
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Senators Pol, Qaddoura, Randolph added as cosponsors
- **2025-04-10** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 427: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-22** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 516: yeas 89, nays 0
- **2025-04-22** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 221 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1407528-e2c0-4250-b16c-02244773a285`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).