---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bank accounts for foster and emancipated youths."
description: "Provides that a foster youth or emancipated youth is legally competent to enter into a contract with a depository financial institution to open a savings or checking account in the youth's name with the consent of a juvenile court with jurisdiction over the youth."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1441"
citation: "Indiana HB 1441 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS)", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care", "COURTS; Juvenile Courts", "FINANCIAL SERVICES; Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andrea Hunley", "Chris Campbell", "Kyle Walker", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac0069ae-6ff8-4312-83d7-953aeb7df580"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1441"
source_hash: "d14597e4cf97b22b007ad17d240c02b6e1483365247f180dd4642f9a25bf112e"
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 1441 (2025) — Bank accounts for foster and emancipated youths.

Provides that a foster youth or emancipated youth is legally competent to enter into a contract with a depository financial institution to open a savings or checking account in the youth's name with the consent of a juvenile court with jurisdiction over the youth.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.05.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.03.ENGH.pdf)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.06.ENRS.pdf)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.02.COMH.pdf)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.04.COMS.pdf)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1441/HB1441.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1441 - Campbell — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1441 - Walker K - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- HB 1441 - Campbell - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Andrea Hunley — primary (person)
- Chris Campbell — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Meltzer — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy Dant Chesser — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Coauthored by Representatives Dant Chesser and Judy
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Campbell
- **2025-02-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Representative Meltzer added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Amendment #1 (Meltzer) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 113: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10** Senate sponsors: Senators Walker K, Donato, Hunley
- **2025-02-10** Cosponsor: Senator Ford J.D.
- **2025-02-11** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-20** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-25** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-01** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-03** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 365: yeas 91, nays 0
- **2025-04-07** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 90 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ac0069ae-6ff8-4312-83d7-953aeb7df580`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).