Indiana 2024 Regular Session Status: Enacted Bipartisan · 9 R · 1 D cosponsors

HB 1369 — Family and juvenile law matters.

Last action — Public Law 70

  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 10, 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.

  • 10 sponsors

    4 primary, 6 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (9 R · 1 D) — cross-party backing.

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Summary

Amends the definition for "act of rape", only for the purposes of IC 31-35-3.5 (termination of parent-child relationship of an individual who committed an act of rape), to include child molestation and sexual misconduct with a minor. Provides that the department of child services or a court shall consider ensuring the child's safety to be the most important consideration in the determination of a child's best interests under family and juvenile law. Provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a child is a child in need of services if the state establishes that the child lives in the same household as an adult who was a perpetrator of a child fatality or near fatality that may have been the result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect. Adds sexual misconduct with a minor as an offense that may be alleged in a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship when a child is conceived as a result of the offense. Amends the circumstances under which a court may terminate the parent-child relationship with regard to a child in need of services.

Bill Text

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Action History

  1. Public Law 70

  2. Signed by the Governor

  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 246: yeas 89, nays 0

  7. Motion to concur filed

  8. Returned to the House with amendments

  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 198: yeas 49, nays 0

  10. Amendment #1 (Brown L) prevailed; voice vote

  11. Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed

  12. Placed back on second reading

  13. Senators Glick, Buck, Randolph added as cosponsors

  14. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  15. Committee report: do pass, adopted

  16. First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary

  17. Referred to the Senate

  18. Senate sponsors: Senators Brown L, Koch, Dernulc

  19. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 99: yeas 94, nays 0

  20. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed

  21. Amendment #2 (Jackson) motion withdrawn voice vote

  22. Amendment #1 (McGuire) prevailed; voice vote

  23. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  24. Coauthored by Representatives Jeter, Steuerwald, Goss-Reaves

  25. First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary

  26. Authored by Representative McGuire

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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4 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 140 not signed on

Sponsors (4)

Co-sponsors (6)

Not signed on (140)

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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1369 do?
Amends the definition for "act of rape", only for the purposes of IC 31-35-3.5 (termination of parent-child relationship of an individual who committed an act of rape), to include child molestation and sexual misconduct with a minor. Provides that the department of child services or a court shall consider ensuring the child's safety to be the most important consideration in the determination of a child's best interests under family and juvenile law. Provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a child is a child in need of services if the state establishes that the child lives in the same household as an adult who was a perpetrator of a child fatality or near fatality that may have been the result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect. Adds sexual misconduct with a minor as an offense that may be alleged in a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship when a child is conceived as a result of the offense. Amends the circumstances under which a court may terminate the parent-child relationship with regard to a child in need of services.
Who sponsors HB 1369?
HB 1369 is sponsored by Lonnie Randolph (Democrat), James Buck (Republican), Susan Glick (Republican), Dan Dernulc (Republican), Eric Koch (Republican), Liz Brown (Republican), Lori Goss-Reaves (Republican), Gregory Steuerwald (Republican), Chris Jeter (Republican), and Julie McGuire (Republican).
What is the current status of HB 1369?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced January 10, 2024. Enacted.
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