Rep. Carolyn Jackson

Memorializing Representative Sally J. Siegrist.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION celebrating the achievements and contributions of attorney, community leader, and civil rights activist Fay H. Williams.

Celebrating February as Black History Month.

Establishes the Indiana border safety grant program (program) and the Indiana border safety grant fund (fund). Provides that the program and fund are administered by the Indiana criminal justice institute (institute). Defines a "qualified law enforcement agency". Provides that a qualified law enforcement agency may apply to the institute for a grant for certain law enforcement equipment. Makes an appropriation.

Provides that if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian, the department of child services (department) shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the first six months following the child's return to the home. Provides that: (1) if the dispositional decree entered in the case of a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian: (A) provides for reunification of the child with the parent, guardian, or custodian; and (B) requires the parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program; the dispositional decree must require the parent, guardian, or custodian to submit to weekly, random drug testing for the first six months following the child's return to the home; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test after the child's return to the home, the department shall change the placement of the child and file an emergency motion with the court or request the court to issue a temporary order for an emergency change in the child's placement. Provides that if a child who is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian is returned to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian for purposes of a trial home visit, the department shall conduct random, unannounced, in-home, face-to-face assessments of the child not less than once each week for the duration of the trial home visit. Provides that: (1) if a child is removed from the home of the child's parent, guardian, or custodian and the child's dispositional decree requires the child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in an addiction treatment program, the dispositional decree must require that the parent, guardian, or custodian submit to weekly, random drug testing for the duration of a trial home visit; and (2) if the parent, guardian, or custodian tests positive for a controlled substance or fails to submit to a required drug test during a trial home visit, the department shall terminate the trial home visit. Provides that a trial home visit must be at least three months in duration, subject to circumstances necessitating removal of the child from the home. Provides that if a dispositional decree requires a child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in a program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation and the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree: (1) the department: (A) shall not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian supervised visitation with the child until the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian is making consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree; and (B) shall not return the child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian, including for purposes of a trial home visit, or allow the parent, guardian, or custodian unsupervised visitation with the child, until the parent, guardian, or custodian completes the services required under the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation; and (2) the court shall not modify the dispositional decree to reduce the number of services in which the parent, guardian, or custodian is required to participate unless the court finds that a compelling reason exists for the modification.

Creates the rape kit backlog fund to provide funding for assisting law enforcement agencies and testing labs in eliminating the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the criminal justice institute (CJI) to provide grants to law enforcement agencies and testing labs to help eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits. Requires the CJI to make an annual report to the general assembly. Makes an appropriation.

Requires the department of education (department) to determine the amount of money that was: (1) intended to be distributed to school corporations; (2) reverted in the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and ending June 30, 2011; and (3) not replaced through appropriations made in subsequent years. Requires the department to distribute the money to school corporations for the purpose of replacing the reverted money. Makes an appropriation.

Provides that, beginning with children who enroll in school for the school year beginning in 2024, the governing body of a school corporation shall require every child not more than seven years of age who enrolls in a school operated by the school corporation to undergo a test for the presence of lead in the child's blood. Defines "dwelling unit lead hazard" as: (1) the presence of lead-based paint on a wall of a dwelling unit; (2) the presence of lead-contaminated soil outside a dwelling unit; or (3) the presence of lead in the drinking water system of a dwelling unit. Prohibits the renting or sale of a dwelling unit to a family that includes a child not more than seven years of age if the dwelling unit is subject to a dwelling unit lead hazard. Requires a landlord, before renting a dwelling unit to a tenant family that includes a child not more than seven years of age, to have the dwelling unit inspected to determine whether the dwelling unit is subject to any dwelling unit lead hazard. Requires a seller, before selling a dwelling unit to a prospective purchaser family that includes a child not more than seven years of age, to have the dwelling unit inspected to determine whether the dwelling unit is subject to any dwelling unit lead hazard. Provides that a landlord or seller who knowingly or intentionally: (1) violates the renting or sale prohibition; (2) represents to a family that the family may waive the renting or sale prohibition; (3) misrepresents the age of a member of a family to conceal a violation of the renting or sale prohibition; or (4) induces a member of a family to misrepresent the age of another member of the family to conceal a violation of the renting or sale prohibition; commits a Class C misdemeanor. Makes technical corrections.

Provides that with respect to the construction of a Class 2 structure for which a building permit is issued after December 31, 2023, the structure must be designed, constructed, and wired so as to enable an occupant of the structure to charge an electric vehicle (EV) through the use of EV supply equipment supplied by the occupant or a third party. Specifies that this requirement does not require a person who designs, constructs, or wires a Class 2 structure to: (1) provide EV supply equipment for use on the premises; or (2) install, or inspect EV supply equipment that is installed, on the premises.

Provides that if the department of child services (department) takes a child into custody, the department may not release the child to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian if: (1) the parent, guardian, or custodian, or a household member of the parent, guardian, or custodian, is the subject of a substantiated allegation of abuse of a child; and (2) the child expresses a desire to not be released to the parent, guardian, or custodian; and may not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian to have contact with the child until: (A) the child consents to contact with the parent, guardian, or custodian; or (B) the child's child in need of services case is closed; whichever occurs first. Provides that if a dispositional decree requires a child's parent, guardian, or custodian to participate in a program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation and the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree, the department: (1) may not return the child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian; and (2) may not allow the parent, guardian, or custodian in person contact with the child unless the contact is approved as being in the child's best interest by: (A) a court appointed special advocate or guardian ad litem; and (B) a licensed marriage and family therapist, if one has been appointed for the child; until the court finds that the parent, guardian, or custodian is making consistent and timely progress toward the goals set forth in the dispositional decree. Provides that if, in a 12 month periodic case review for a child in need of services, the court finds that the child's parent, guardian, or custodian has failed to make consistent and timely progress in any service that was ordered by the court and that was made available to the parent, guardian, or custodian by the department, the court shall order: (1) that the permanency plan for the child be changed to a concurrent plan in which at least one intended permanency arrangement is not reunification; or (2) that the intended permanency arrangement for the child be changed to placement of the child for adoption. Provides: (1) that in a 15 month periodic case review for a child in need of services, the court shall order: (A) that the permanency plan for the child be changed to a concurrent plan in which at least one intended permanency arrangement is not reunification; or (B) that the intended permanency arrangement for the child be changed to placement of the child for adoption; and (2) that thereafter, the intended permanency arrangement for the child may not be changed to solely reunification. Amends and adds to the conditions under which reasonable efforts to reunify a child with the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, or preserve a child's family, are not required. Provides that: (1) if a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child in need of services is involuntarily discharged three or more times from a program or service in which the parent, guardian, or custodian is required to participate under the child's dispositional decree, the court may order the parent, guardian, or custodian to pay the cost of subsequent participation in the program or service; and (2) if the dispositional decree requires the parent, guardian, or custodian to submit to drug testing and the parent, guardian, or custodian: (A) tests positive for a controlled substance; or (B) fails to submit to a required drug test; three or more times, the court may order the parent, guardian, or custodian to pay the cost of any subsequent drug testing required under the dispositional decree. Establishes conditions under which a parent's consent to termination of the parent's parent-child relationship with respect to a child is implied without further action of the court, and provides that the parent's implied consent is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent's relationship with the child. Provides that a court finding that a parent has failed to make consistent and timely progress in any service that was ordered by the court in a dispositional decree and that was made available to the parent by the department is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent's relationship with the child. Requires termination of the parent-child relationship with regard to a child who is: (1) taken into custody; and (2) adjudicated a child in need of services; on two separate occasions in a two year period. Provides, for purposes of a petition to terminate the parent-child relationship, that: (1) the court finding that there is a satisfactory plan for the care and treatment of the child, and that the plan is in the child's best interests, is a factor weighing in favor of terminating the parent-child relationship; and (2) if the intended permanency arrangement for the child is placement of the child for adoption, a specific adoptive home need not have been identified in order for the plan to be satisfactory or in the child's best interests.