---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military protective order."
description: "Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence of a military protective order in effect against a respondent for the protection of the petitioner. Amends provisions concerning facially valid foreign protection orders to include certain protection orders issued by a Canadian court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1286"
citation: "Indiana HB 1286 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARMED FORCES; Servicemembers", "CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Evidence", "COURTS; Generally", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cyndi Carrasco", "Ryan Lauer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24b2bab3-afda-4e74-a8ad-b4676023871a"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1286"
source_hash: "c7cb84b20b4b68b95a57c263df59458597a46543bf8e54898e81fa5e447c82d2"
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 1286 (2026) — Military protective order.

Specifies that a party to a protective order proceeding has a duty to inform the court of any military protective orders issued by a military commander in effect between the parties. Allows the court to consider evidence of a military protective order in effect against a respondent for the protection of the petitioner. Amends provisions concerning facially valid foreign protection orders to include certain protection orders issued by a Canadian court.

## 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/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.04.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.05.ENRS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.03.COMS.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2026/house/bills/HB1286/HB1286.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1286 - Lauer — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1286 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1286 - Carrasco - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cyndi Carrasco — primary (person)
- Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
- Alex Zimmerman — coauthor (person)
- Maureen Bauer — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-06** Authored by Representative Lauer
- **2026-01-27** Representative Bauer added as coauthor
- **2026-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Representative Zimmerman added as coauthor
- **2026-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-02** Senate sponsor: Senator Carrasco
- **2026-02-02** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 181: yeas 93, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-03** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2026-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2026-02-17** Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 251: yeas 47, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 376: yeas 95, nays 0
- **2026-02-25** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2026-02-25** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2026-02-26** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Public Law 90 `became-law`
- **2026-03-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/24b2bab3-afda-4e74-a8ad-b4676023871a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).