HB 1123 Indiana House · 2024 Regular Session

Child advocacy centers.

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 status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2024
House Passage
Mar 2024
Senate Passage
Mar 2024
Signed into Law
Mar 2024
Introduced Jan 8, 2024 Signed Mar 11, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Feb 26, 2024 · House Jan 23, 2024

How they voted

480
Passed
Total votes 48
Feb 26, 2024
D Democratic9
9 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican39
39 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
24
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Mar 11, 2024
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Mar 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by the President of the Senate
upper
Mar 5, 2024
Upper · Passed
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
upper
Mar 4, 2024
Lower · Passed
Signed by the Speaker
lower
Feb 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 242: yeas 87, nays 0
lower
Feb 26, 2024
Upper · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 49, nays 0
upper
Feb 19, 2024
Upper · Passed
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
upper
Jan 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 96, nays 0
lower
Jan 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
2 primary · 6 co-sponsors

Sponsors