republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1123.md

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Bill	Child advocacy centers.	Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1123	Indiana HB 1123 (2024)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS) CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Immunity and Exemption from Liability CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Abuse and Domestic Violence (Excluding Animals)	enacted	Dale DeVon Greg Walker Mark Messmer	4	24	3	2024-01-08	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/7340d692-2b31-4848-92ae-d796655acdb1	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1123	4da48f6882a3dbb2a94e2a1ca1ff9959ff6b6ae8eddd9951b158bc9e52dfbde9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1123 (2024) — Child advocacy centers.

Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.

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 1123 - DeVon — 87–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1123 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1123 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dale DeVon — primary (person)
• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
• Michael Crider — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Representative DeVon
• 2024-01-18 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 96, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-23 Representatives Olthoff, Goss-Reaves, Jackson added as coauthors
• 2024-01-24 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-01-23 Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
• 2024-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Senator Crane added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-20 Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
• 2024-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-26 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Senator Crider added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-27 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2024-02-28 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2024-02-28 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 242: yeas 87, nays 0
• 2024-03-04 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-05 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 54 became-law
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7340d692-2b31-4848-92ae-d796655acdb1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).