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Read. Follow. Verify.Indiana House Bill 1026 restricts financial responsibility and opportunity growth fund use exclusively to child care vouchers and Pre-K
Last action · December 1, 2025: First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and MeansSponsor: Gregory Porter
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What This Bill Proposed
Indiana House Bill 1026 restricts the entire from the to the Child Care and Development Fund voucher program and programmatic funding, effective retroactively to July 1, 2025. It repeals previous augmentations for state correctional facilities, Medicaid assistance, and the family and children fund, requiring funds previously distributed for those repealed purposes to be returned.
The bill shifts state budget allocations by stripping away funding flexibility for corrections, Medicaid, and child services, locking those dollars solely into early childhood education and childcare voucher programs.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Child Care and Development Fund voucher program
The program becomes the exclusive intended recipient of appropriations from the financial responsibility and opportunity growth fund.
department of correction
Previous augmentations from the fund to its operations appropriation are repealed.
family and social services administration
Previous augmentations from the fund to its Medicaid assistance appropriation are repealed.
department of child services
Previous augmentations from the fund to the family and children fund appropriation are repealed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Dec 1, 2025HouseIntroducedFirst reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means
- Dec 1, 2025HouseAuthored by Representative Porter
Version history
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Retroactive Budget Re-allocation
The bill applies retroactively to July 1, 2025, attempting to undo and claw back previously authorized fund distributions for corrections, Medicaid, and child services.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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