republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1238.md

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Bill	Competency evaluation.	Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish a training program to certify a competency evaluator to assist a court in determining competency. Provides that certain licensed individuals may examine a defendant and testify as to whether the defendant can understand the criminal proceedings and assist in the preparation of the defendant's defense. Allows a court to dismiss criminal charges, without prejudice if the defendant has a certain diagnosis and the defendant is charged with a misdemeanor or Level 6 felony. Makes conforming changes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1238	Indiana HB 1238 (2024)	bill	CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Generally	enacted	Liz Brown Mark Messmer Michael Crider Wendy McNamara	4	23	3	2024-01-09	2024-03-12	openstates	ocd-bill/46936a8a-a3f1-478c-adaf-966a09827c31	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1238	fb168c53f9937a318e4e679a4159ecb40a2deb36ce73dec67c169c1816cf3943	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1238 (2024) — Competency evaluation.

Requires the division of mental health and addiction to establish a training program to certify a competency evaluator to assist a court in determining competency. Provides that certain licensed individuals may examine a defendant and testify as to whether the defendant can understand the criminal proceedings and assist in the preparation of the defendant's defense. Allows a court to dismiss criminal charges, without prejudice if the defendant has a certain diagnosis and the defendant is charged with a misdemeanor or Level 6 felony. Makes conforming changes.

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 1238 - McNamara — 87–2 (pass) · lower
• HB 1238 - McNamara - 3rd Reading — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1238 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — 43–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Liz Brown — primary (person)
• Mark Messmer — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Wendy McNamara — primary (person)
• Gregory Steuerwald — coauthor (person)
• Jennifer Meltzer — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mitch Gore — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Authored by Representative McNamara
• 2024-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-09 Coauthored by Representatives Meltzer, Steuerwald, Gore
• 2024-01-25 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
• 2024-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-01 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L, Messmer, Crider
• 2024-02-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 138: yeas 97, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-06 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-29 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 220: yeas 43, nays 6 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2024-03-05 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2024-03-05 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 282: yeas 87, nays 2
• 2024-03-07 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-12 Public Law 85 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46936a8a-a3f1-478c-adaf-966a09827c31. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).