Indiana · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 498: Child services.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
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Plain-language summary
SB 498 is a bill introduced in the Indiana Senate on January 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Child services. Primary sponsor: Elizabeth Rowray (Republican), Daryl Schmitt (Republican), Greg Walker (Republican). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 16, 2025): Public Law 81.
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Allows the Indiana board of pharmacy to release confidential information received by the INSPECT program to a supervisor of the department of child services (department) who is engaged in an investigation or adjudication of child abuse or neglect. Amends the definition of "emergency shelter" for purposes of statutes governing residential child care facilities. Provides that an applicant for licensure as a child caring institution or licensure as a group home must obtain a criminal history check of any contractor or individual working in the child caring institution or group home who is likely to have unsupervised contact with children. Amends provisions under which the department may waive the maximum duration for which a child may stay at a shelter care facility to remove a reference to the length of the maximum duration. Amends the educational and experiential qualifications for casework supervisors at child placing agencies. Provides that provisions requiring: (1) a residential child care facility to ensure that a child admitted to the facility has received all immunizations and booster shots required under specified statutes; and (2) a residential child care facility that administers psychotropic medication to obtain periodic written reports from the licensed professional who prescribed the psychotropic medication; do not apply to an emergency shelter.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 6
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Rowray | Primary sponsor | Republican | House | 35 |
| Daryl Schmitt | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 48 |
| Greg Walker | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 41 |
| Alex Burton | Co-sponsor | Democratic | House | 77 |
| Dale DeVon | Co-sponsor | Republican | House | 5 |
| Stacey Donato | Co-sponsor | Republican | Senate | 18 |
| Lori Goss-Reaves | Co-sponsor | Republican | House | 31 |
| Lonnie Randolph | Co-sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 2 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Public Law 81
- Signed by the Governor
- Signed by the President of the Senate
- Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- Signed by the Speaker
- Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 356: yeas 44, nays 4
- Returned to the Senate with amendments
- Motion to concur filed
- Third reading: passed; Roll Call 360: yeas 90, nays 1
- Representative Goss-Reaves added as cosponsor
- Amendment #1 (Rowray) prevailed; voice vote
- Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
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