Indiana 2024 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 5 R · 2 D cosponsors

HB 1123 — Child advocacy centers.

Last action — Signed by the Governor

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed House
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2024. Enacted.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Likely to advance 78% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 9 sponsors

    3 primary, 6 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (5 R · 2 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Signed by the Governor

  2. Public Law 54

  3. Signed by the President of the Senate

  4. Signed by the President Pro Tempore

  5. Signed by the Speaker

  6. House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 242: yeas 87, nays 0

  7. Motion to concur filed

  8. Returned to the House with amendments

  9. Senator Crider added as cosponsor

  10. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 49, nays 0

  11. Senator Randolph added as cosponsor

  12. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  13. Senator Walker G added as second sponsor

  14. Senator Crane added as cosponsor

  15. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  16. First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services

  17. Referred to the Senate

  18. Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer

  19. Representatives Olthoff, Goss-Reaves, Jackson added as coauthors

  20. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 96, nays 0

  21. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  22. Committee report: do pass, adopted

  23. Authored by Representative DeVon

  24. First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs

Sponsors

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3 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 141 not signed on

Sponsors (3)

Co-sponsors (6)

Not signed on (141)

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1123 do?
Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.
Who sponsors HB 1123?
HB 1123 is sponsored by Lonnie Randolph (Democrat), Michael Crider (Republican), John Crane, Greg Walker (Republican), Mark Messmer, Carolyn Jackson (Democrat), Lori Goss-Reaves (Republican), Julie Olthoff (Republican), and Dale DeVon (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1123?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 08, 2024. Enacted.
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