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type: "Bill"
title: "Department of child services."
description: "Provides that if the governor declares a state of disaster emergency, the department of child services (department) may: (1) allow older youth who are receiving collaborative care services at the time of the declaration to continue to receive collaborative care services for the duration of the state of disaster emergency; and (2) modify or suspend enforcement of a statute or rule specifying a time within which a foster parent must provide for a child to be examined by a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse after the child's placement in the foster parent's home."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1536"
citation: "Indiana HB 1536 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Erin Houchin", "Fady Qaddoura", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/269c75d4-3ff5-4108-b6ea-427d88a18f79"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/house/1536"
source_hash: "f2d24592f9c428ae87f8832714e383fefc72f42367723befe4db9cadddbc28f6"
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 1536 (2021) — Department of child services.
Provides that if the governor declares a state of disaster emergency, the department of child services (department) may: (1) allow older youth who are receiving collaborative care services at the time of the declaration to continue to receive collaborative care services for the duration of the state of disaster emergency; and (2) modify or suspend enforcement of a statute or rule specifying a time within which a foster parent must provide for a child to be examined by a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse after the child's placement in the foster parent's home.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1536/versions/HB1536.04.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1536/versions/HB1536.05.ENRS)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1536/versions/HB1536.02.COMH)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1536/versions/HB1536.03.COMS)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/HB1536/versions/HB1536.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1536 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — coauthor (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — coauthor (person)
- John Young — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-14** Coauthored by Representatives Young J, Vermilion, Rowray
- **2021-01-14** Authored by Representative DeVon
- **2021-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 126: yeas 91, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-15** Senate sponsor: Senator Grooms
- **2021-02-16** Referred to the Senate
- **2021-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Amendment #1 (Grooms) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-25** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-03-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 282: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-29** Senator Qaddoura added as second sponsor
- **2021-03-29** Senator Houchin added as third sponsor
- **2021-03-30** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2021-03-30** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2021-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 402: yeas 89, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 214
- **2021-04-29** 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/269c75d4-3ff5-4108-b6ea-427d88a18f79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).