republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/hb-1412.md

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Bill	Reporting of child abuse or neglect.	Provides that an individual's duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect may only be delegated to another person if certain conditions are met. Requires that if a report of suspected child abuse or neglect alleges that a staff member, youth coach, or volunteer of an institution, school, facility, organization, or agency is the abuser, law enforcement shall investigate to determine whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew that the alleged abuse was happening and failed to report the alleged abuse. Allows law enforcement to consider certain facts when determining whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew about the alleged abuse. Provides that a child is not a child in need of services due to a parent, guardian, or custodian referring to and raising a child consistent with the child's biological sex. Makes conforming changes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	HB 1412	Indiana HB 1412 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS) AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education CHILDREN AND MINORS; Crimes Against Children CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Abuse and Domestic Violence (Excluding Animals) HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Generally HEALTH CARE FACILITIES; Hospitals LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally SCHOOLS; Health and Safety Issues SCHOOLS; Officers and Employees (Other than Teachers)	enacted	Becky Cash Greg Goode Michael Crider	5	28	3	2025-01-13	2025-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/e677bfc8-ea1b-4d84-8e36-0d769e8b25e4	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1412	954dfa11bc5a36062319068e189f769712a0c2e6ffba07c7c195bd48f0fa753d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1412 (2025) — Reporting of child abuse or neglect.

Provides that an individual's duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect may only be delegated to another person if certain conditions are met. Requires that if a report of suspected child abuse or neglect alleges that a staff member, youth coach, or volunteer of an institution, school, facility, organization, or agency is the abuser, law enforcement shall investigate to determine whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew that the alleged abuse was happening and failed to report the alleged abuse. Allows law enforcement to consider certain facts when determining whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew about the alleged abuse. Provides that a child is not a child in need of services due to a parent, guardian, or custodian referring to and raising a child consistent with the child's biological sex. Makes conforming changes.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1412 - Cash — 59–19 (pass) · lower
• HB 1412 - Goode - 3rd Reading — 31–18 (pass) · upper
• HB 1412 - Cash - 3rd Reading — 91–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Becky Cash — primary (person)
• Greg Goode — primary (person)
• Michael Crider — primary (person)
• Dan Dernulc — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Lorissa Sweet — coauthor (person)
• Victoria Garcia Wilburn — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Authored by Representative Cash
• 2025-01-13 Coauthored by Representative Olthoff
• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Recommitted to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• 2025-02-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 138: yeas 91, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2025-02-11 Senate sponsors: Senators Goode, Crider, Carrasco
• 2025-02-11 Cosponsor: Senator Dernulc
• 2025-02-11 Representatives Sweet and Garcia Wilburn added as coauthors
• 2025-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-25 Senator Carrasco removed as third sponsor
• 2025-04-03 Amendment #4 (Johnson T) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-04-03 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-03 Amendment #1 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-04-07 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 346: yeas 31, nays 18 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-07 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2025-04-08 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-14 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2025-04-16 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 474: yeas 59, nays 19
• 2025-04-17 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-04-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-05-01 Public Law 168 became-law
• 2025-05-01 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e677bfc8-ea1b-4d84-8e36-0d769e8b25e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).