republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-16.md

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Bill	Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program.	Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has an intellectual disability and is subject to a guardianship.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 16	Indiana SB 16 (2024)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS; Adoption COUNTIES; La Porte COUNTIES; Marshall COUNTIES; Starke COURTS; Guardianships and Conservatorships HEALTH; Developmental Disabilities	enacted	Jim Pressel Mike Bohacek Ron Alting	4	19	2	2024-01-08	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/01cb8065-ae7a-4a1a-ac64-13074ca57cde	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0016	47a98bafaeb6408c197cc6d20aba00b1d3f1d7c79fa95d5cd8b2fe58d7d8d5c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 16 (2024) — Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program.

Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has an intellectual disability and is subject to a guardianship.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 16 - Bohacek - 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 16 - Pressel - 3rd Reading — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jim Pressel — primary (person)
• Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
• Ron Alting — primary (person)
• Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-08 Authored by Senators Bohacek and Alting
• 2024-01-11 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 45, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-01-18 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2024-01-18 Cosponsor: Representative Jordan
• 2024-01-18 House sponsor: Representative Pressel
• 2024-01-19 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 256: yeas 97, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2024-03-07 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 97 became-law
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01cb8065-ae7a-4a1a-ac64-13074ca57cde. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).