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type: "Bill"
title: "Child care background checks."
description: "Requires employees and volunteers of a child care facility who may be present on the premises of the child care facility during operating hours to submit to a national criminal history background check. (Under current law, employees and volunteers who have direct contact with children must submit to a national criminal history background check.) Specifies that results of the background check may be used as grounds for denial or revocation of a child care license or registration or eligibility for a child care and development fund voucher payment. Makes technical corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1264"
citation: "Indiana HB 1264 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Care Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris May", "Erin Houchin", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d250481a-7de1-491b-b1ea-cdf2299bdba2"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/house/1264"
source_hash: "87767aab6e420c11f49d204760b6541819366b7897ac044d62663aabae535a35"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---
# Indiana HB 1264 (2020) — Child care background checks.
Requires employees and volunteers of a child care facility who may be present on the premises of the child care facility during operating hours to submit to a national criminal history background check. (Under current law, employees and volunteers who have direct contact with children must submit to a national criminal history background check.) Specifies that results of the background check may be used as grounds for denial or revocation of a child care license or registration or eligibility for a child care and development fund voucher payment. Makes technical corrections.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1264/versions/HB1264.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1264/versions/HB1264.03.COMS)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1264/versions/HB1264.02.COMH)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/HB1264/versions/HB1264.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1264 - May - 3rd Reading — **930** (pass) · lower
- HB 1264 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **500** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris May — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Frank Mrvan — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Melanie Wright — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-14** Authored by Representative May
- **2020-01-14** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** Senate sponsor: Senator Houchin
- **2020-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 160: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-02-03** Representative Wright added as coauthor
- **2020-02-03** Representative Klinker added as coauthor
- **2020-02-04** Referred to the Senate
- **2020-02-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Senator Mrvan added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-25** Senator Ford J.D. added as cosponsor
- **2020-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Senator Grooms added as second sponsor
- **2020-03-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 305: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2020-03-04** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2020-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 331: yeas 75, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2020-03-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2020-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2020-03-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-30** Public Law 121
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d250481a-7de1-491b-b1ea-cdf2299bdba2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).