republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/hb-1310.md

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Bill	Children in need of services.	Provides that if a child has been removed from the child's parent for at least 12 of the most recent 22 months at the time of a periodic case review, the child's permanency plan must include at least one intended permanent or long term arrangement for care and custody of the child other than reunification of the child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. Provides that concurrent planning must be implemented if the child has been removed from the child's parent for at least 12 of the most recent 22 months at the time of a permanency hearing. Provides that the department may not: (1) take adverse action against a foster parent's license; or (2) remove a child from the home of a foster parent, relative of the child, or de facto custodian; on the basis of the foster parent, relative, or de facto custodian filing a notice with the court that a petition is required to be filed, but has not been filed, to terminate the parent-child relationship with regard to the child.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	HB 1310	Indiana HB 1310 (2024)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS) CHILDREN AND MINORS; Children in Need of Services (CHINS) CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care COURTS; Juvenile Courts	enacted	Greg Walker Mike Gaskill Ryan Lauer Tyler Johnson	4	26	2	2024-01-10	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/cf096ba4-2a88-4782-8b90-f8700dc07763	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1310	876b2fb2dea23474a1e04871017122ce0ff399f66d3ed352ce16b94b4ec92ee4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1310 (2024) — Children in need of services.

Provides that if a child has been removed from the child's parent for at least 12 of the most recent 22 months at the time of a periodic case review, the child's permanency plan must include at least one intended permanent or long term arrangement for care and custody of the child other than reunification of the child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian. Provides that concurrent planning must be implemented if the child has been removed from the child's parent for at least 12 of the most recent 22 months at the time of a permanency hearing. Provides that the department may not: (1) take adverse action against a foster parent's license; or (2) remove a child from the home of a foster parent, relative of the child, or de facto custodian; on the basis of the foster parent, relative, or de facto custodian filing a notice with the court that a petition is required to be filed, but has not been filed, to terminate the parent-child relationship with regard to the child.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
3. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HB 1310 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• HB 1310 - Walker G - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
• J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
• Stacey Donato — cosponsor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Authored by Representative Lauer
• 2024-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
• 2024-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-29 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthor
• 2024-01-29 Amendment #1 (Jackson) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 94: yeas 92, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-30 Senate sponsors: Senators Walker G, Johnson T, Gaskill
• 2024-01-30 Cosponsor: Senator Donato
• 2024-01-30 Representative Jackson added as coauthor
• 2024-01-31 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2024-02-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-19 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Senator Rogers added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Senator Becker added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-26 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 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
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 69 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf096ba4-2a88-4782-8b90-f8700dc07763. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).