Indiana Senate Bill 301 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: Passed on April 29 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-29 - Public Law 148
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Child services oversight. Establishes the interim study committee on child services (committee). Provides that the committee: (1) shall review the annual reports submitted by local child fatality review teams and by the statewide child fatality review committee and shall report to the legislative council regarding the committee's review of the reports; and (2) may make recommendations regarding changes in policy or statutes to improve child safety; in addition to reporting to the legislative council regarding any other issue assigned to the committee by the legislative council. Provides that a local child fatality committee may meet at the call of members of the local child fatality committee other than the county prosecutor for purposes of the first meeting of the local child fatality committee. Requires the summary information included in the department's annual report regarding child fatalities to indicate, with regard to a child fatality that was the result of abuse or neglect, whether the child was a ward of the department at the time of the event that led to the child's death. Requires the department to provide the annual report to the committee. Urges the legislative council to assign the following topics to the committee, or to another appropriate study committee, for study during the 2021 legislative interim: (1) Amending the Indiana Code to provide for a structured, limited, confidential process by which members of the general assembly may, in the regular course of legislative duties, individually request and view reports and other materials regarding cases of child abuse or neglect and child fatalities resulting from abuse or neglect, while protecting personally identifying information and confidentiality. (2) The child fatality review process, including recommendations from the department and the state department of health with regard to improving reporting and data collection. Requires a local child fatality review committee that has not held its first meeting as of the effective date of the bill to hold its first meeting not later than December 31, 2021.

Child services oversight.

Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Sen. Ronald Grooms [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]
Sen. Stacey Donato [R]	Sen. J.D. Ford [D]	Sen. Fady Qaddoura [D]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Sen. Susan Glick [R]	Sen. Linda Rogers [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Rep. Dale DeVon [R]
Rep. Ann Vermilion [R]	Rep. Ryan Lauer [R]

2021-04-15 - Senate - Senate - Senate concurred in House amendments (Y: 42 N: 0 NV: 5 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2021-04-13 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 92 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2021-04-01 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-23 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2021-02-15 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-29	Senate	Public Law 148
2021-04-29	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2021-04-26	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2021-04-21	House	Signed by the Speaker
2021-04-20	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2021-04-15	Senate	Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 446: yeas 42, nays 0
2021-04-14	Senate	Motion to concur filed
2021-04-14	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2021-04-13	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 436: yeas 92, nays 0
2021-04-12	House	Amendment #2 (DeVon) prevailed; voice vote
2021-04-12	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2021-04-01	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2021-03-04	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
2021-02-24	Senate	Referred to the House
2021-02-23	Senate	Senator Leising added as coauthor
2021-02-23	Senate	Senators Glick and Rogers added as coauthors
2021-02-23	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Vermilion A and Lauer
2021-02-23	Senate	House sponsor: Representative DeVon
2021-02-23	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 47, nays 0
2021-02-22	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2021-02-22	Senate	Amendment #2 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote
2021-02-22	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2021-02-18	Senate	Senators Koch, Donato, Ford J.D., Qaddoura added as coauthors
2021-02-18	Senate	Senator Grooms added as third author
2021-02-18	Senate	Senator Ford Jon added as second author
2021-02-15	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2021-01-11	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services
2021-01-11	Senate	Authored by Senator Houchin

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/301/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/c/6/0/6c604ffb/SB0301.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/9/6/c/b96c9265/SB0301.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/1/8/8/518857d5/SB0301.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/5/3/f/453f87bf/SB0301.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/b/f/2/3bf250e6/SB0301.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/e/6/a/2e6a35ce/SB0301.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/4/7/b/b47b0077/SB0301.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/3/d/8/d3d87a64/SB0301.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/b/b/7/9bb70243/SB0301.05.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/5/e/4/c5e4db03/SB0301.06.ENRH.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/d/b/9/bdb90888/SB0301.02.COMS.AMS001.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/3/d/a/c3daf9f3/SB0301.02.COMS.AMS002.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/4/7/2/34724d2c/SB0301.04.COMH.AMH001.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/0/8/2/a0828f8e/SB0301.04.COMH.AMH002.pdf
Amendment	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/2/b/1/52b1cde6/SB0301.04.COMH.AMH003.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/e/1/5/ce155eac/SB0301.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/4/5/4/a4544c6c/SB0301.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/c/2/2/ac2215fc/SB0301.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/2/e/9/e2e9ee2b/SB0301.02.COMS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/c/8/a/0c8af942/SB0301.03.ENGS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/d/d/9/9dd9fb86/SB0301.03.ENGS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/7/c/e/27ce384a/SB0301.03.ENGS.CRH001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/c/0/6/bc06f292/SB0301.04.COMH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/9/0/e/790e7d7a/SB0301.05.ENGH.FN001.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/f/5/4/9f54ba9e/SB0301.05.ENGH.FN002.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/c/8/a/4c8ab021/SB0301.05.ENGH.CON01.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/c/2/3/9c234850/SB0301.06.ENRH.FN001.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/1/3/3/5133b7d1/SB0301.01.INTR.01.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/3/c/b/e3cb87b3/SB0301.186_S.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/2/1/7/4217c6ed/SB0301.03.ENGS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/e/6/2/0e626ab9/SB0301.436_H.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/2/8/0/0280493c/SB0301.446_S.pdf