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Reprinted
March 26, 2025
ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1441
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DIGEST OF HB 1441 (Updated March 25, 2025 2:17 pm - DI 119)
Citations Affected: IC 28-1.
Synopsis: Bank accounts for foster and emancipated youths. Provides
that a foster youth or emancipated youth is legally competent to enter
into a contract with a depository financial institution to open a savings
or checking account in the youth's name with the consent of a juvenile
court with jurisdiction over the youth.
Effective: July 1, 2025.
Campbell, Dant Chesser, Judy,
Meltzer
(SENATE SPONSORS — WALKER K, DONATO, HUNLEY, FORD J.D.,
QADDOURA, RANDOLPH LONNIE M)
January 21, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Financial Institutions.
February 4, 2025, amended, reported — Do Pass.
February 6, 2025, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
February 7, 2025, engrossed.
February 10, 2025, read third time, passed. Yeas 91, nays 0.
SENATE ACTION
February 20, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial
Institutions.
March 20, 2025, amended, reported favorably — Do Pass.
March 25, 2025, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.
EH 1441—LS 7320/DI 119 Reprinted
March 26, 2025
First Regular Session of the 124th General Assembly (2025)
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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1441
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
financial institutions.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 28-1-1-3.7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
2 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
3 1, 2025]: Sec. 3.7. For purposes of section 7 of this chapter,
4 "emancipated youth" means an individual who is less than eighteen
5 (18) years of age and has been:
6 (1) granted emancipation; or
7 (2) emancipated by operation of law.
8 SECTION 2. IC 28-1-1-3.9 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
9 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
10 1, 2025]: Sec. 3.9. For purposes of section 7 of this chapter, "foster
11 youth" means an individual who is:
12 (1) at least sixteen (16) years of age; and
13 (2) certified or acknowledged as a foster youth (as defined in
14 IC 31-9-2-47.3) by the department of child services or a
15 designee of the department of child services.
16 SECTION 3. IC 28-1-1-7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
17 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
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1 1, 2025]: Sec. 7. For purposes of IC 28-1-23-17, "qualified youth"
2 means an individual who is:
3 (1) a foster youth; or
4 (2) an emancipated youth.
5 SECTION 4. IC 28-1-23-17 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
6 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
7 1, 2025]: Sec. 17. (a) A qualified youth may enter into a contract
8 with a depository financial institution to open a savings or checking
9 account in the qualified youth's name with the consent of a juvenile
10 court with jurisdiction over the qualified youth.
11 (b) A qualified youth who opens a savings or checking account
12 under subsection (a) is:
13 (1) solely responsible for paying all banking-related costs
14 associated with the account; and
15 (2) solely liable for any and all penalties assessed to the
16 qualified youth as the account holder due to the qualified
17 youth's violation of the terms of the account.
18 (c) A qualified youth may not avoid a contract entered into with
19 a depository financial institution under subsection (a) by alleging
20 that the qualified youth was under a legal disability by reason of
21 the qualified youth's age.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Financial Institutions, to which
was referred House Bill 1441, has had the same under consideration
and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Page 1, line 3, delete "IC 28-1-20-5.5" and insert "IC 28-1-23-17".
Page 1, line 7, delete "IC 28-1-20-5.5" and insert "IC 28-1-23-17".
Page 1, line 9, delete "5.5." and insert "17.".
Page 1, line 10, delete "bank or trust company" and insert
"depository financial institution".
Page 2, line 4, delete "bank or trust company" and insert
"depository financial institution".
Page 2, line 10, delete "bank or trust company" and insert
"depository financial institution".
Page 2, line 13, delete "bank or trust company" and insert
"depository financial institution".
Page 2, line 20, delete "IC 28-1-20-5.5" and insert "IC 28-1-23-17".
Page 2, line 21, delete "bank or trust company" and insert
"depository financial institution".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1441 as introduced.)
TESHKA
Committee Vote: yeas 13, nays 0.
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HOUSE MOTION
Mr. Speaker: I move that House Bill 1441 be amended to read as
follows:
Page 1, between the enacting clause and line 1, begin a new
paragraph and insert:
"SECTION 1. IC 28-1-1-3.7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2025]: Sec. 3.7. For purposes of section 7 of this chapter,
"emancipated youth" means an individual who is less than eighteen
(18) years of age and has:
(1) filed for; or
(2) been granted;
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emancipation.".
Page 1, line 3, delete "IC 28-1-23-17," and insert "section 7 of this
chapter,".
Page 1, between lines 6 and 7, begin a new paragraph and insert:
"SECTION 2. IC 28-1-1-7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2025]: Sec. 7. For purposes of IC 28-1-23-17, "qualified youth"
means an individual who is:
(1) a foster youth; or
(2) an emancipated youth.".
Page 1, line 9, delete "foster youth" and insert "qualified youth".
Page 1, line 11, delete "foster youth's" and insert "qualified
youth's".
Page 1, line 14, delete "foster youth" and insert "qualified youth".
Page 1, line 15, delete "foster youth" and insert "qualified youth".
Page 2, line 2, delete "foster" and insert "qualified".
Page 2, line 3, delete "foster youth's" and insert "qualified youth's".
Page 2, line 5, delete "foster" and insert "qualified".
Page 2, line 7, delete "foster youth" and insert "qualified youth".
Page 2, line 13, delete "foster youth" and insert "qualified youth".
Page 2, line 16, delete "foster youth's" and insert "qualified
youth's".
Page 2, line 22, delete "foster" and insert "qualified".
Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
(Reference is to HB 1441 as printed February 4, 2025.)
MELTZER
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. President: The Senate Committee on Insurance and Financial
Institutions, to which was referred House Bill No. 1441, has had the
same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the
Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as
follows:
Page 1, delete line 14, begin a new line block indented and insert:
"(2) certified or acknowledged as a foster youth (as defined in
IC 31-9-2-47.3) by the department of child services or a
designee of the department of child services.".
Page 2, line 6, delete "is legally competent to" and insert "may".
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Page 2, delete lines 9 through 11, and insert "consent of a juvenile
court with jurisdiction over the qualified youth.".
Page 2, delete lines 19 through 38, begin a new paragraph and
insert:
"(c) A qualified youth may not avoid a contract entered into
with a depository financial institution under subsection (a) by
alleging that the qualified youth was under a legal disability by
reason of the qualified youth's age.".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1441 as reprinted February 7, 2025.)
BALDWIN, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0.
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SENATE MOTION
Mr. President: I move that Engrossed House Bill 1441 be amended
to read as follows:
Page 1, line 5, delete "has:" and insert "has been:
(1) granted emancipation; or
(2) emancipated by operation of law.".
Page 1, delete lines 6 through 8.
(Reference is to EHB 1441 as printed March 21, 2025.)
YOUNG M
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