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Bill Child care background checks. Requires employees and volunteers of a child care facility who may be present on the premises of the child care facility during operating hours to submit to a national criminal history background check. (Under current law, employees and volunteers who have direct contact with children must submit to a national criminal history background check.) Specifies that results of the background check may be used as grounds for denial or revocation of a child care license or registration or eligibility for a child care and development fund voucher payment. Makes technical corrections. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2020 HB 1264 Indiana HB 1264 (2020)
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CHILDREN AND MINORS
Child Care Programs
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Erin Houchin
Ronald Grooms
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Indiana HB 1264 (2020) — Child care background checks.

Requires employees and volunteers of a child care facility who may be present on the premises of the child care facility during operating hours to submit to a national criminal history background check. (Under current law, employees and volunteers who have direct contact with children must submit to a national criminal history background check.) Specifies that results of the background check may be used as grounds for denial or revocation of a child care license or registration or eligibility for a child care and development fund voucher payment. Makes technical corrections.

Version chain

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

  1. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • HB 1264 - May - 3rd Reading — 930 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1264 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — 500 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Chris May — primary (person)
  • Erin Houchin — primary (person)
  • Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
  • Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
  • J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
  • Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
  • Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2020-01-14 Authored by Representative May
  • 2020-01-14 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-03 Senate sponsor: Senator Houchin
  • 2020-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 93, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-02-03 Representative Wright added as coauthor
  • 2020-02-03 Representative Klinker added as coauthor
  • 2020-02-04 Referred to the Senate
  • 2020-02-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2020-02-24 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2020-02-24 Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
  • 2020-02-25 Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
  • 2020-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2020-02-27 Senator Grooms added as second sponsor
  • 2020-03-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 305: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2020-03-04 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
  • 2020-03-05 Motion to concur filed
  • 2020-03-09 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 331: yeas 75, nays 0 amendment-failure
  • 2020-03-10 Signed by the Speaker
  • 2020-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the President of the Senate
  • 2020-03-18 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2020-03-30 Public Law 121

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d250481a-7de1-491b-b1ea-cdf2299bdba2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).