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Child advocacy centers.

It became law on Mar 11, 2024.

IN HB 1123 · House Bill · 2024

Stage
Became law
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House
Sponsors
+5
Latest action
Mar 11, 2024

What it does

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…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Mar 11, 2024

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Where it goes next

It is law in Indiana. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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