republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2022/hb-1222.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various FSSA matters."
description: "Allows the family and social services administration to deny or revoke licensing for a child care home based on a household member's conviction for certain specified criminal offenses. Removes a limitation specifying that an occupancy provision regarding school-age children in class I child care homes applies only during the school year. Eliminates the bureau of quality improvement services and reassigns the bureau's responsibilities to the bureau of developmental disabilities services. Renames the bureau of child care as the office of early childhood and out of school learning. Amends the required composition of mobile crisis teams that provide behavioral health services in conjunction with the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline. Provides that a contract entered into with a third party by the division of mental health and addiction (division) for provision of competency restoration services to a defendant may confer to the third party all authority the division would have in providing the services to the defendant at a state psychiatric institution. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) establish a plan to expand the use of certified community behavioral health clinics in Indiana; and (2) make certain considerations in preparing the plan. Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to provide behavioral health services to a committed offender held by the department of correction. Makes conforming amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1222"
citation: "Indiana HB 1222 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Child Care Programs", "DRUGS", "Treatment of Drug and Other Substance Abuse", "FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION", "MENTAL HEALTH", "Local Agencies and Programs", "MENTAL HEALTH", "State Department and Institutions", "WELFARE", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Ziemke", "Jon Ford", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/053e2a46-a56b-40b8-ada3-f233d8ae34ab"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1222"
source_hash: "ba564aa1742904446f8c4436a8ea960433c4fc30321485d9f2c4dda0d0eb2135"
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 1222 (2022) — Various FSSA matters.

Allows the family and social services administration to deny or revoke licensing for a child care home based on a household member's conviction for certain specified criminal offenses. Removes a limitation specifying that an occupancy provision regarding school-age children in class I child care homes applies only during the school year. Eliminates the bureau of quality improvement services and reassigns the bureau's responsibilities to the bureau of developmental disabilities services. Renames the bureau of child care as the office of early childhood and out of school learning. Amends the required composition of mobile crisis teams that provide behavioral health services in conjunction with the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline. Provides that a contract entered into with a third party by the division of mental health and addiction (division) for provision of competency restoration services to a defendant may confer to the third party all authority the division would have in providing the services to the defendant at a state psychiatric institution. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) establish a plan to expand the use of certified community behavioral health clinics in Indiana; and (2) make certain considerations in preparing the plan. Allows the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to provide behavioral health services to a committed offender held by the department of correction. Makes conforming amendments.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1222/versions/HB1222.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1222/versions/HB1222.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1222/versions/HB1222.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1222/versions/HB1222.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1222 - Crider - 3rd Reading — **41–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cindy Ziemke — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — coauthor (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Ziemke
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-11** Representative DeVon added as coauthor
- **2022-01-12** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2022-01-13** Representative Jackson added as coauthor
- **2022-01-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20** Senate sponsor: Senator Crider
- **2022-01-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 53: yeas 86, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07** Senator Ford Jon added as second sponsor
- **2022-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 197: yeas 41, nays 4 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-21** Representatives DeVon, Olthoff, Jackson removed as coauthors
- **2022-02-21** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-02-22** Representatives Vermilion A, Olthoff, Jackson added as coauthors
- **2022-02-22** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 248: yeas 91, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-02-24** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 74
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/053e2a46-a56b-40b8-ada3-f233d8ae34ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).