republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1051.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Communication between caregivers and parents.	Adds language providing that supporting and facilitating two-way communication between parents and foster parents or kinship caregivers is a state policy.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1051	Indiana HB 1051 (2024)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS) CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally	enacted	Dale DeVon Greg Walker Stacey Donato	4	21	2	2024-01-08	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/f1d135d0-89af-40be-bb22-6d56ec94b8f4	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1051	56d6d3f8dfdd4220db75908b08a7434e9eef037db2f1abcc4e0751304f031b01	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1051 (2024) — Communication between caregivers and parents.

Adds language providing that supporting and facilitating two-way communication between parents and foster parents or kinship caregivers is a state policy.

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 1051 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1051 - Donato - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dale DeVon — primary (person)
• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
• Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
• Renee Pack — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Authored by Representative DeVon
• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthor
• 2024-01-23 Representative Clere added as coauthor
• 2024-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 96, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-23 Representative Pack R added as coauthor
• 2024-01-23 Senate sponsor: Senator Donato
• 2024-01-24 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
• 2024-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2024-03-04 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-05 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 45 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1d135d0-89af-40be-bb22-6d56ec94b8f4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).