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type: "Bill"
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title: "Communication between caregivers and parents."
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description: "Adds language providing that supporting and facilitating two-way communication between parents and foster parents or kinship caregivers is a state policy."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2024"
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identifier: "HB 1051"
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citation: "Indiana HB 1051 (2024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Child Services (DCS)", "CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care", "MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LAW; Generally"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Greg Walker", "Stacey Donato"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2024-01-08"
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last_action: "2024-03-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1d135d0-89af-40be-bb22-6d56ec94b8f4"
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source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/hb1051"
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source_hash: "56d6d3f8dfdd4220db75908b08a7434e9eef037db2f1abcc4e0751304f031b01"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana HB 1051 (2024) — Communication between caregivers and parents.
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Adds language providing that supporting and facilitating two-way communication between parents and foster parents or kinship caregivers is a state policy.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1051/HB1051.04.ENRS.pdf)
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2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1051/HB1051.03.COMS.pdf)
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3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1051/HB1051.02.COMH.pdf)
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4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1051/HB1051.01.INTR.pdf)
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## Votes
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- HB 1051 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- HB 1051 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
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- Greg Walker — primary (person)
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- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
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- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
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- Lori Goss-Reaves — coauthor (person)
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- Renee Pack — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-01-08** Authored by Representative DeVon
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- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2024-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2024-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2024-01-23** Representative Goss-Reaves added as coauthor
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- **2024-01-23** Representative Clere added as coauthor
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- **2024-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 29: yeas 96, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2024-01-23** Representative Pack R added as coauthor
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- **2024-01-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Donato
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- **2024-01-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
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- **2024-02-05** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2024-02-19** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2024-02-20** Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
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- **2024-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2024-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 187: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2024-02-27** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
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- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2024-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2024-03-11** Public Law 45 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f1d135d0-89af-40be-bb22-6d56ec94b8f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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