Provides that an individual's duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect is may only be delegated to another person if certain conditions are met. Requires that if a report of suspected child abuse or neglect 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 law enforcement to consider certain facts when determining whether the institution, school, facility, organization, or agency knew about the alleged abuse. Increases the penalty for failure by a member of the staff of a public or private institution, school, facility, organization, or agency to report suspected child abuse or neglect to a Class A misdemeanor (instead of a Class B misdemeanor, under current law), and increases the penalty to a Level 6 felony if the person has a prior conviction for failure to report abuse or neglect. Makes conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced House Bill (H): 4-13-19-5, 12-17.2-3.5-8.5, 25-1-9-4, 31-33-5-2, 31-33-5-4, 31-33-22-1
House Bill (H): 4-13-19-5, 12-17.2-3.5-8.5, 25-1-9-4, 31-33-5-2, 31-33-5-4, 31-33-22-1