republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2026/hb-1018.md

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Bill	School age child care.	Removes certain transportation requirements in the approval criteria for the school age child care project fund. Requires the division of family resources to adopt rules specifying cost and expense standards for transporting a child to a facility where the child does not attend school.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2026	HB 1018	Indiana HB 1018 (2026)	bill	SCHOOLS; Funds and Budgets STATE GOVERNMENT; State and Local Funding	enacted	Dale DeVon Greg Walker Stacey Donato	4	20	2	2025-12-01	2026-02-24	openstates	ocd-bill/01cbc18d-1e74-4e2c-b10c-820380daf412	https://api.iga.in.gov/2026/bills/hb1018	e87dd0ef0f00062af621ff0a97ca23909546f5d04f1b051c945cb0c2886ee75c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1018 (2026) — School age child care.

Removes certain transportation requirements in the approval criteria for the school age child care project fund. Requires the division of family resources to adopt rules specifying cost and expense standards for transporting a child to a facility where the child does not attend school.

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 1018 - Donato - 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• HB 1018 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dale DeVon — primary (person)
• Greg Walker — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
• Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
• Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-12-01 Authored by Representative DeVon
• 2025-12-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-01-14 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2026-01-15 Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthor
• 2026-01-15 Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
• 2026-01-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2026-01-22 Senate sponsors: Senators Donato, Walker G
• 2026-01-23 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2026-01-22 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 65: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2026-01-26 First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services reading-1, referral-committee
• 2026-02-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2026-02-12 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2026-02-16 Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
• 2026-02-17 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 172: yeas 45, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2026-02-18 Returned to the House without amendments receipt
• 2026-02-19 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2026-02-19 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2026-02-23 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2026-02-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2026-02-24 Public Law 17 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01cbc18d-1e74-4e2c-b10c-820380daf412. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).