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| Bill | Adoption and foster care matters. | Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief, unless the discriminatory act as applied to the person is required to advance a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of advancing the interest. Specifies that a governmental entity may consider whether a person involved in adoption or foster care matters shares the same religion or faith tradition as a child or the child's parent when considering placement of a child. Allows a person to bring a cause of action against a governmental entity for discriminating against the person, or raise a violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding, and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim. | us/states/in | Indiana General Assembly | 2026 | HB 1389 | Indiana HB 1389 (2026) |
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Indiana HB 1389 (2026) — Adoption and foster care matters.
Prohibits a governmental entity from discriminating against a person in adoption and foster care matters based on the person's sincerely held religious belief, unless the discriminatory act as applied to the person is required to advance a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of advancing the interest. Specifies that a governmental entity may consider whether a person involved in adoption or foster care matters shares the same religion or faith tradition as a child or the child's parent when considering placement of a child. Allows a person to bring a cause of action against a governmental entity for discriminating against the person, or raise a violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding, and allows for certain remedies. Provides that there is a two year statute of limitation for a discrimination claim.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
- House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- HB 1389 - Johnson T - 3rd Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper
- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 3rd Reading — 69–29 (pass) · lower
- HB 1389 - Lindauer — 84–12 (pass) · lower
- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 2nd Reading — 29–62 (fail) · lower
- HB 1389 - Lindauer - 2nd Reading — 26–63 (fail) · lower
Sponsors
- Greg Walker — primary (person)
- Shane Lindauer — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
- Dale DeVon — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — coauthor (person)
- Scott Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Spencer Deery — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-08 Authored by Representative Lindauer
- 2026-01-08 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
reading-1, referral-committee - 2026-01-13 Representatives Jeter, DeVon, Heaton added as coauthors
- 2026-01-27 Committee report: do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2026-01-29 Amendment #2 (Garcia Wilburn) failed; Roll Call 158: yeas 26, nays 63
amendment-failure, failure - 2026-01-29 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2026-01-29 Amendment #3 (Garcia Wilburn) failed; Roll Call 159: yeas 29, nays 62
amendment-failure, failure - 2026-02-02 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 196: yeas 69, nays 29
passage, reading-3, reading-3 - 2026-02-02 Senate sponsor: Senator Johnson T
- 2026-02-03 Referred to the Senate
referral - 2026-02-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
reading-1, referral-committee - 2026-02-09 Senator Buchanan added as cosponsor
- 2026-02-09 Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
- 2026-02-09 Senators Deery, Byrne, Brown L added as cosponsors
- 2026-02-12 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
committee-passage - 2026-02-16 Senators Gaskill, Alexander added as cosponsors
- 2026-02-16 Second reading: ordered engrossed
reading-2 - 2026-02-16 Senator Donato added as third sponsor
- 2026-02-17 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 44, nays 0
passage, reading-3, reading-3 - 2026-02-18 Returned to the House with amendments
receipt - 2026-02-19 Motion to concur filed
filing - 2026-02-19 House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 300: yeas 84, nays 12
- 2026-02-23 Signed by the Speaker
passage - 2026-02-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
passage - 2026-02-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
passage - 2026-02-26 Public Law 43
became-law - 2026-02-26 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ea6f107-3b7a-4f20-abb5-a015bd533e57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).