Indiana House Bill 1412

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-13 - First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
Pending: House Family, Children and Human Affairs Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Reporting of child abuse or neglect. Provides that staff members of a medical institution, a medical facility, or any other health care facility have a duty to report child abuse immediately to both the department of child services and a local law enforcement agency. Provides that an individual's duty to report is nondelegable. Requires that if a report alleges that a staff member, youth coach, or volunteer of an institution, school, facility, organization, or agency is the abuser, local law enforcement shall investigate to determine whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew that the alleged abuse was happening and failed to report the alleged abuse. Allows local law enforcement to consider certain facts when determining whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew about the alleged abuse. Raises the penalty for failure to report for certain individuals to a Class A misdemeanor. (Under current law, it is a Class B misdemeanor.) Makes conforming changes.

Reporting of child abuse or neglect.

Rep. Becky Cash [R]

Rep. Julie Olthoff [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-13	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
2025-01-13	House	Authored by Representative Cash
2025-01-13	House	Coauthored by Representative Olthoff

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/house/1412/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1412/HB1412.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1412/fiscal-notes/HB1412.01.INTR.FN001.pdf