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type: "Bill"
title: "Mental health services."
description: "Requires a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school to certify to the department of homeland security that the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school has a memorandum of understanding in place with a community mental health center or provider certified or licensed by the state to provide mental and behavioral health services to students before applying for a grant from the Indiana secured school fund. Provides that the community mental health center or provider may be employed by the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school. Requires a school corporation and a charter school to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or provider certified or licensed by the state to provide mental and behavioral health services to students. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to develop a memorandum of understanding for referral and assist school corporations and charter schools in obtaining a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or an appropriate provider. Requires each school corporation and charter school that enters into a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or appropriate provider to comply with certain confidentiality and referral requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 246"
citation: "Indiana SB 246 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "MENTAL HEALTH", "Local Agencies and Programs", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "James Merritt", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4f2eecd-3a01-4299-a49c-1a6839bf4685"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/246"
source_hash: "28ad39cbc93f357def46879c2122c4ac681a5860e3d94164d7da6d42a09e4e57"
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 SB 246 (2020) — Mental health services.
Requires a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school to certify to the department of homeland security that the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school has a memorandum of understanding in place with a community mental health center or provider certified or licensed by the state to provide mental and behavioral health services to students before applying for a grant from the Indiana secured school fund. Provides that the community mental health center or provider may be employed by the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school. Requires a school corporation and a charter school to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or provider certified or licensed by the state to provide mental and behavioral health services to students. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to develop a memorandum of understanding for referral and assist school corporations and charter schools in obtaining a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or an appropriate provider. Requires each school corporation and charter school that enters into a memorandum of understanding with a community mental health center or appropriate provider to comply with certain confidentiality and referral requirements.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.03.ENGS)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.05.ENGH)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0246/versions/SB0246.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 246 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **952** (pass) · lower
- SB 246 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **500** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- James Merritt — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- James Buck — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald Grooms — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-09** Authored by Senator Crider
- **2020-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Homeland Security and Transportation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-16** Amendment #1 (Crider) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-01-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-16** Senator Becker added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-01-21** House sponsor: Representative Cook
- **2020-01-21** Senator Merritt added as second author
- **2020-01-21** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Buck added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Raatz added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2020-01-21** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2020-01-22** Referred to the House
- **2020-02-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Representative Schaibley added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-17** Amendment #1 (Austin) prevailed; Roll Call 179: yeas 95, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-17** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** Representative Hatfield added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 188: yeas 95, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-19** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-24** Senator Grooms added as coauthor
- **2020-03-03** Motion to dissent filed
- **2020-03-03** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-03** Senate conferees appointed: Crider and Mrvan
- **2020-03-03** Senate advisors appointed: Merritt, Randolph Lonnie M, Becker and Ford J.D.
- **2020-03-04** House conferees appointed: Cook and Austin
- **2020-03-04** House advisors appointed: Schaibley, Sherman, Hatfield and Shackleford
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2020-03-10** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2020-03-10** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 350: yeas 83, nays 2
- **2020-03-10** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 358: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-18** Public Law 69
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4f2eecd-3a01-4299-a49c-1a6839bf4685`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).