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Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1626: Child custody orders.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1626 is a bill introduced in the Indiana House on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Child custody orders. Primary sponsor: Liz Brown (Republican), Chris Judy (Republican). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 3, 2025): Signed by the Governor.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Requires the following to be included in a custody order: (1) a trial court shall include the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law on which the custody order is based; and (2) an appellate decision shall include the facts upon which the appellate court relied to affirm or reverse an order.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1 · Republican 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Liz BrownPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate15
Chris JudyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse83
Chris JeterCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse88
Heath VanNatterCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse38
Victoria Garcia WilburnCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse32

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Signed by the Governor
  2. Public Law 38
  3. Signed by the President of the Senate
  4. Signed by the Speaker
  5. Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  6. House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 275: yeas 96, nays 0
  7. Motion to concur filed
  8. Returned to the House with amendments
  9. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 230: yeas 50, nays 0
  10. Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
  11. Amendment #1 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote
  12. Committee report: do pass, adopted

Showing 12 most recent of 23 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source