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type: "Bill"
title: "Child fatality reporting."
description: "Requires the state child fatality review coordinator to provide to each local child fatality review team a data collection form for reporting data regarding child fatalities. Specifies additional information that must be included in the department of child services' annual report regarding child fatalities that are the result of abuse or neglect."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1247"
citation: "Indiana HB 1247 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS generally", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "CRIMES AND OFFENSES", "Offenses Against Persons", "DEATH"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Ford", "Jon Ford", "Linda Rogers", "Ryan Lauer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91a35e75-1dba-4a58-9a89-94c92ac0922a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1247"
source_hash: "6934d271e9f8776efd640174535ed7b9a85650f91a72fcabd6a29d6a22a950ba"
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 1247 (2022) — Child fatality reporting.
Requires the state child fatality review coordinator to provide to each local child fatality review team a data collection form for reporting data regarding child fatalities. Specifies additional information that must be included in the department of child services' annual report regarding child fatalities that are the result of abuse or neglect.
## 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/HB1247/versions/HB1247.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1247/versions/HB1247.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1247/versions/HB1247.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1247/versions/HB1247.01.INTR)
## Votes
- HB 1247 - Ford Jon - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- J.D. Ford — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Ryan Lauer — primary (person)
- Ann Vermilion — coauthor (person)
- Carolyn Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Ledbetter — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Stacey Donato — cosponsor (person)
- Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Lauer
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** Representatives Jackson and Ledbetter C added as coauthors
- **2022-01-26** Representative Vermilion A added as coauthor
- **2022-01-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Senate sponsors: Senators Ford Jon, Rogers, Ford J.D.
- **2022-01-31** Cosponsor: Senator Koch
- **2022-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 144: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** Senator Qaddoura added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** Senator Becker added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-24** Senator Donato added as cosponsor
- **2022-02-28** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2022-03-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** Motion to concur filed
- **2022-03-02** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 328: yeas 88, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-04** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 76
- **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/91a35e75-1dba-4a58-9a89-94c92ac0922a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).