republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-171.md

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Bill	Reunification plan for a child in need of services.	Amends the circumstances under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 171	Indiana SB 171 (2024)	bill	CHILDREN AND MINORS; Children in Need of Services (CHINS) CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally	enacted	Greg Walker Ryan Lauer Stacey Donato Tyler Johnson	4	24	2	2024-01-08	2024-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/bc871f4e-ecc3-42eb-86cc-c12913b41a62	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0171	a8ec5794984023d3a0a8fd534e27b64912f4b105ce0726ccad71840d690d3a07	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 171 (2024) — Reunification plan for a child in need of services.

Amends the circumstances under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian or preserve a child's family are not required.

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 171 - Walker G - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 171 - Lauer - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Cindy Ledbetter — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Vanessa Summers — cosponsor (person)
• Vaneta Becker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-08 Authored by Senator Walker G
• 2024-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2024-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 86: yeas 49, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 Cosponsors: Representatives Ledbetter, Patterson, Olthoff
• 2024-02-01 Senator Donato added as second author
• 2024-02-01 Senator Johnson T added as third author
• 2024-02-01 Senator Becker added as coauthor
• 2024-02-01 House sponsor: Representative Lauer
• 2024-02-02 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Representative Summers added as cosponsor
• 2024-02-21 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2024-02-20 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 172: yeas 91, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Rule 105.1 suspended
• 2024-03-04 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
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-11 Public Law 19 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc871f4e-ecc3-42eb-86cc-c12913b41a62. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).