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| Bill | Parents with disabilities. | Specifies that it is the policy of the state to recognize the parenting rights of a parent regardless of whether the parent has a disability. Provides that the right of a person with a disability to parent the person's child may not be denied or restricted solely because the person has a disability. Provides that: (1) a court, in: (A) considering the appointment of a person as a guardian; (B) hearing an action to modify custody or an action to determine or modify parenting time; or (C) determining whether to grant a petition for adoption; and (2) the department of child services, in determining whether to grant a person a license to operate a foster family home; may not discriminate against, and shall take into consideration the provision of reasonable accommodations to, a person with a disability. | us/states/in | Indiana General Assembly | 2021 | SB 259 | Indiana SB 259 (2021) |
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5 | 30 | 0 | 2021-01-11 | 2021-04-29 | openstates | ocd-bill/1531ce8f-52f2-4600-84fe-fe6830ef3a9b | http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/259 | 03a907b589703256ea71470d34b64ddb737318ce8ed4445eeaa074f5f4f1fdb7 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Indiana SB 259 (2021) — Parents with disabilities.
Specifies that it is the policy of the state to recognize the parenting rights of a parent regardless of whether the parent has a disability. Provides that the right of a person with a disability to parent the person's child may not be denied or restricted solely because the person has a disability. Provides that: (1) a court, in: (A) considering the appointment of a person as a guardian; (B) hearing an action to modify custody or an action to determine or modify parenting time; or (C) determining whether to grant a petition for adoption; and (2) the department of child services, in determining whether to grant a person a license to operate a foster family home; may not discriminate against, and shall take into consideration the provision of reasonable accommodations to, a person with a disability.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Sponsors
- David Niezgodski — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Andrade — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Grooms — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-11 Authored by Senator Niezgodski
- 2021-01-11 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-01-25 Senator Ford Jon added as second author
- 2021-02-15 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-02-15 Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- 2021-02-16 Senators Bohacek, Crane, Ford J.D., Koch, Grooms added as coauthors
- 2021-02-18 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-02-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 154: yeas 49, nays 0
passage, reading-3 - 2021-02-22 House sponsor: Representative Clere
- 2021-02-22 Cosponsors: Representatives Porter and Andrade M
- 2021-02-22 Senator Alting added as coauthor
- 2021-02-22 Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- 2021-02-22 Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
- 2021-02-22 Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- 2021-02-23 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- 2021-02-24 Referred to the House
- 2021-03-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
reading-1, referral-committee - 2021-03-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2021-04-08 Amendment #2 (Clere) prevailed; voice vote
amendment-failure, amendment-passage - 2021-04-08 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2021-04-12 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 404: yeas 89, nays 0
passage, reading-3 - 2021-04-12 Representative Vermilion A added as cosponsor
- 2021-04-13 Returned to the Senate with amendments
amendment-failure - 2021-04-15 Motion to concur filed
- 2021-04-19 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 452: yeas 48, nays 0
amendment-failure - 2021-04-23 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- 2021-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate
- 2021-04-28 Signed by the Speaker
- 2021-04-29 Public Law 146
- 2021-04-29 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1531ce8f-52f2-4600-84fe-fe6830ef3a9b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).